Housing as Intervention: Launch reception and book signing
Celebrate the release of Housing as Intervention: Architecture towards Social Equity.
September 6, 2018
6:30 p.m.
Housing as Intervention cover.
Join us to celebrate the launch of Housing as Intervention: Architecture towards Social Equity, edited by Karen Kubey.
This 17-essay volume of Architectural Design (AD) examines how housing projects around the world, and the design processes behind them, might be interventions towards greater social equity. Housing’s primary position in our lives, economies, and the built environment makes it a natural site of intervention in the complex fight against systemic injustices. In the face of persistent social inequities worldwide, how can architects make a meaningful contribution?
Contributors:
Cynthia Barton, Deborah Gans, and Rosamund Palmer; Neeraj Bhatia and Antje Steinmuller; Dana Cuff; Fatou Dieye; Robert Fishman; Na Fu; Paul Karakusevic; Kaja Kühl and Julie Behrens; Matthew Gordon Lasner; Meir Lobaton Corona; Marc Norman; Julia Park; Brian Phillips and Deb Katz; Pollyanna Rhee; Emily Schmidt and Rosalie Genevro
Kubey and some of the contributors will be in attendance, and books will be available for purchase.
Brief remarks will be made at 7:00 p.m.
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Housing on the edge: A brief history of Arverne
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Density diversified: Three housing types for Ravenswood, Queens
For the Making Room design study, Gans Studio designed housing for the individual resident and the larger urban context simultaneously.
City as living room: Single and shared housing in the Bronx
For the Making Room design study, Team 8 designed housing for underused sites along the Grand Concourse.