Joseph Kunkel is Fast-Tracking Quality Housing for Indigenous People
How the founder of MASS's Sustainable Native Communities Design Lab builds back better—against the clock.
Affordable Housing
A Colorful Portland Prototype Reinvents the SRO
Argyle Gardens, the nation’s first affordable housing project to open during the pandemic, was designed by Holst Architecture to also be replicable.
Inside Victor Body-Lawson’s Mission to Humanize Public Housing
Combining experience at Davis Brody Bond and his own paintings from his studio, the New York architect aims to enhance the lives of residents.
Moody Nolan Designs a House to Give Away—Land and All
With each Legacy House it builds, the firm helps create ownership one family at a time.
New Criteria for Affordable Housing: Green and Healthy
An update to the Enterprise Green Communities Criteria certification, available to property owners of low- and moderate-income housing, integrates key aspects of WELL 2.0.
Six Years in the Making, Berlin's IBeB Cooperative Housing Development Creates a Tight-Knit Community of Residents
Recently shortlisted for the 2019 EU Mies Award, the 66-unit project's lengthy customization process and ample common spaces created a community from the ground-up.
In Paris, an Affordable Housing Complex Creates a New Vertical Neighborhood
Designed by Hamonic + Masson & Associates, Rue Camille Claudel offers clever sites for communal gathering and abundant access to the outdoors.
Architect Peter Barber Is Reinventing London's Housing
Barber, the subject of a recent exhibition at the London Design Museum, is creating practical and fantastical solutions for the city's housing crisis.
How to Design for Seniors in Increasingly Unaffordable Cities
Metropolis spoke with architect Jonathan Kirschenfeld about strategies for designing affordable, high-quality homes for the elderly.
In the Wake of Inclusionary Housing, What Needs to Happen Next in Portland
In the Portland offices of TVA Architects, Metropolis’s director of design innovation Susan S. Szenasy led a lively discussion on healthy solutions to affordable housing.
Studio Libeskind Tapped to Design Affordable Senior Housing in Brooklyn
The new building, located in the Bed-Stuy neighborhood of Brooklyn, will create 197 affordable residences for the New York City Housing Authority.
New Exhibition Highlights the Best of European Affordable Housing Architecture
Social Housing – New European Projects, which is on view at the Center for Architecture in New York, showcases 25 stand-out projects.
The Future of Living: Housing Innovation in Underserved Markets
A Q&A with Booth Hansen architects on how innovations in construction are changing the dynamics of residential development.
Brooks + Scarpa's The Six Raises the Bar for Affordable Housing in LA
A new veteran-focused housing development seeks to offer a more sensitive salve to Los Angeles’s growing homelessness crisis.
This Must Be a Turning Point: Anna Minton on Housing Post-Grenfell
In the wake of London's devastating Grenfell fire, we speak to author Anna Minton about the future of housing in Western cities.
Joan Clos: The Problem Isn't Architecture, It's Urban Design
Metropolis’s Avinash Rajagopal asks Dr. Joan Clos, executive director of UN-Habitat, for his insight into successful affordable housing policy and the "New Urban Agenda," a blueprint for urbanization in the 21st century.
Spotlight: Housing for Formerly Homeless in New Orleans' Historic Neighborhoods
A finalist for the Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence, the Iberville Offsite Rehabs are 46 historic homes rehabilitated for formerly homeless women and children in New Orleans' Seventh Ward and Treme neighborhoods.
When It Comes to Housing, Your Data Can Be Used Against You
The algorithmic processes routinely used by cities are completely biased—and could prevent you from accessing affordable housing.
Inside Carmel Place: New York City's First Micro Housing Building
In this audio piece, we take you inside New York's only all micro-housing building. Along the way we speak to a tenant, an architect, and a developer, who explain why this remarkable project could never be replicated again.
NYCHA Finally Acknowledges the Importance of Design—But Is That Enough?
For the first time in its 83-year history, the New York City Housing Authority has released guidelines that establish design principles to follow when rehabilitating residential buildings. But is this a case of too little, too late?
