Students in Dialogue: A Conversation with Dutra Brown
What is it like to be a Master in Architecture II (MArch II)…
Topic Housing
The ongoing conversation about housing speculates on design’s capacity to address a range of disparate agendas and priorities. Investigations imagine housing as a central agent of change, responding to international, generational, cultural, demographic, psychological, and environmental issues in order to develop a more inclusive and sustainable engagement moving forward.
Design Now Podcast, Episode 4: Designing a way out of the housing crisis
Does America need a new vision of the ideal home? In episode four of…
Sascha Delz, “Co-op Urbanism – A Co-operative Response to Common Myths of Housing Production”
A recording of this event is available with audio description. Event…
Work in Progress: Rayshad Dorsey’s Domestic Grounds
Rayshad Dorsey (MArch I ’23) describes his final project for the option…
Inclusive, Accessible, Subversive: Jenny French on a New Model for Cohousing
Bay State Cohousing, a 30-unit cohousing community, is neatly woven into the…
2022 Urban Design Thesis Prize: Briana Flynn’s “Big Tech’s Emerging Roles in Local Housing Delivery: Two Case Studies of Corporate Affordable Housing Initiatives”
by Briana Flynn (MUP ’22) — Recipient of the Urban Design Thesis Prize. This thesis…
2022 Clifford Wong Prize in Housing Design: Brian Lee’s “People’s Park Complex: Repairing the Modern City”
by Brian Lee (MArch ’22) — Recipient of the 2021 Clifford Wong Prize in…
2022 Design Studies Thesis Prize: Allison Hyatt’s “Priorities in Building Decarbonization: Accounting for total carbon and the time value of carbon in cost-benefit analyses of residential retrofits”
by Allison Hyatt (MDes ’22) — Recipient of the Design Studies Thesis Prize. Energy consumption…
2022 Plimpton-Poorvu Design Prize, First Prize: “Bracing Peter Bracy”
by Hana Cohn (MLA I ’24), Youngju Kim (MAUD ’23), Arami Matevosyan (MDes REBE ’22),…
2022 Plimpton-Poorvu Design Prize, Second Prize: “Miami Gateway”
by Nicolas Carmona (MArch II ’22), George Guida (MArch II ’22), and Manu Moritz (MDes…