The HOME House Project: The Future of Affordable Housing (Paperback)

The Architecture of Affordable Housing by S Davis £23.70

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Selected designs and essays document a multiyear national design initiative aimed at creating sustainable and environmentally-friendly low- and moderate-income housing. Imagine affordable homes that are both well-designed and environmentally friendly, better for the families who live in them and for the planet. The HOME House Project brings such imagining closer to reality. This book chronicles a multi-year national design initiative aimed at addressing issues of design, affordability, and sustainability in housing. Launched by the Southeastern Centre for Contemporary Art (SECCA) in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, this project challenged designers and architects to imagine a world in which sustainable and environmentally friendly materials, technologies, and techniques were considered important elements of housing for low- and moderate-income families. A SECCA-sponsored open competition in 2003 drew 440 entries from the United States and six other countries, all using Habitat for Humanity's three- and four-bedroom house plans as a point of departure for the design of affordable and environmentally friendly housing. This book, published in conjunction with a travelling exhibition, documents the 25 prize-winning designs as well as fifty other selected submissions with 396 colour illustrations. The accompanying text includes Michael Sorkin's essay connecting democratic values to quality of housing, Ben Nicholson's satiric critique of American excess, Steve Badanes's insights on the social responsibilities of architects, and HOME House Project Director David Brown's overview of the project and its continuing evolution. 2005-2006 exhibition dates: El Paso Museum of Art, April 24, 20005 - August 14 2005 Museum of Design, Atlanta, January 16 - April 15, 2006 Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, February 4 - April 30 2006 Arizona State University at Tempe in conjunction with the A.I.A. Phoenix chapter, dates to be announced Other venues to be announced

About the Author
David J. Brown is Senior Curator and HOME House Project Director at the Southeastern Centre for Contemporary Art (SECCA). He has organised more then fifty exhibitions and large-scale community projects. Steve Badanes is a founder of Jersey Devil, a design/build firm that emphasises craft, detail and environmental awareness. He holds the Howard Wright Endowed Chair at the University of Washington and teaches in the Design/Build Mexico Program. Ben Nicholson is Studio Professor of Architecture at Illinois Institute of Technology and author of The Appliance House. Michael Sorkin is the principal of the Michael Sorkin Studio in New York City. He has taught at a number of schools of architecture, including Cooper Union, Columbia, Yale, Harvard, and Cornell.

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