Acts of Design:
New Housing Paradigms in North America

Image: Sustainable Housing Ciudad Acuña designed by Tatiana Bilbao, Image by Iwan Baan from the forthcoming publication A House is Not Just a House: Projects on Housing.

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Acts of Design: New Housing Paradigms in North America

This day-long conference assesses the current state of housing in North America through a combination of case-studies and expanded thematic discussions among architects, academics, and advocates. The conference specifically focuses on designing housing across scales in cities spanning Toronto, Mexico City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Detroit, and New York. Download the full conference program here.

Participants:
Jorge Ambrosi and Gabriela Etchegaray, Michael Bell, Tatiana Bilbao, David Brody, Fernanda Canales, Julia Gómez Candela, Luis Carranza, Maurice Cox, Derek Dellekamp, Adam Frampton, Simon Hartmann, Hans Ibelings, Lisa Yun Lee, Marc Norman, Reinhold Martin, Lorcan O’Herlihy, Anna Puigjaner, Cassim Shepard, Brigitte Shim, and Weston Walker, Organized by Hilary Sample