The interim review of the project went well. I argued that, although architects do not like to think about the suburbs, and although this sentiment is in some senses justified by the fact that speculators, not architects, have been in charge of the suburbs from layout and infrastructure to the shape of the houses since […]
Givens:
People like the suburbs, people want to move there, and people don’t have a problem with the iconic image of a house, gables, siding and garages.
But just because they tend not to be at war with the basic form of the suburban home (in the way that architects and the design-minded often are after prolonged […]
Here’s where I’m at: Have been trying to narrow potential sites by looking at census data and housing prices and potential transit lines to figure out what might be a suburb that is both a) in danger of failing, indicating that houses might be in need of work and b) in a promising location to […]
Let’s pretend, for a moment, that we’re doing a project about the suburbs. What’s going on, in 2010, post housing-market crash? Are poorer people moving out there? Are the people out there just seeming poorer by virtue of lost jobs? Are the houses losing value?
What’s going to happen when the energy for heating, cooling, and […]