2020 Clifford Wong Prize: A House is Not a Home
by Qin Ye Chen (MArch I 2022) and Yiwen Wang (MArch I AP 2022) —…
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.
Bing Wang on COVID-19’s impact on the real estate sector: “Will the pandemic force us to recognize that our built environment is ill-prepared for emergencies?”
The crisis brought about by the coronavirus has utterly paralyzed the normal functioning of society…
The Unstable Condition: What the pandemic can teach us about the need for more affordable rental housing
Photograph © Frederik Vercruysse America’s rental housing system is broken. For anyone living in high-cost,…
A radical transformation in building and designing for health is underway—but not everyone will benefit equally
Hospitals have not always been sites for curing. In a 1974 lecture entitled “The Incorporation…
Creating Higher Ground in Boston’s Seaport
By Amelia Muller (MUP '20) In September 2018, the City of Boston published estimates…
The New Generic
by Daniel Garcia (MArch II '20) In, The Generic City, Rem Koolhaas asks us…
Far Niente
by Alexandros Spentzaris (March II '19) Can we think of another, smaller scale of housing?…
The Labyrinthic Block
by Marc Dessauvage (MArch I '21) and Sarah Cheung (MArch I '21) This housing project is schizophrenic…
Work in Progress: Sarah Fayad’s strategy for equitable distribution of affordable housing in Los Angeles
Sarah Fayad (MLAUD '20) describes her final project for the option…
John T. Dunlop Lecture: “Addressing Homelessness: What Can (and Can’t) Architecture Do?” with Michael Maltzan
Registration coming soon. This event will be fully virtual, and advance registration will be required. This…