Home House Project The Future of Affordable Housing

Name: Home House Project The Future of Affordable Housing
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ISBN: 9780262524322

ISBN-10: 0262524325

ISBN-13: 9780262524322

Edition: 2005

Authors: David J. Brown, Steven Badanes, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art Staff, Ben Nicholson, Michael Sorkin

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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 Center 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…

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List price: $7.75
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 1/21/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 128
Size: 7.01" wide x 9.25" long x 0.45" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

David J. Brown is Senior Curator and HOME House Project Director at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA). He has organized more than fifty exhibitions and large-scale community projects.

Michael Sorkin is principal of Michael Sorkin Studio & director of the Graduate Program in Urban Design at the City College of New York.



Acknowledgments


Table of Contents


Intro



More or Less



The HOME House Project



Intro to HOME House Project merit award winners


Showcase of the 25 merit award winners


Private Life in the Public Realm



Excerpts of a conversation



Selected images from HOME House Project Submissions


About the Authors


Selected List of HOME House Project Designers