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 SECCA-sponsored open competition in 2003 drew 440 entries from the United States and six other countries, all using Habitat for Humanity's three- and four-bedroom house plans as a point of departure for the design of affordable and environmentally friendly housing. This book, published in conjunction with a traveling exhibition, documents the 25 prize-winning designs as well as fifty other selected submissions with 396 color illustrations. The accompanying text includes Michael Sorkin's essay connecting democratic values to quality of housing, Ben Nicholson's satiric critique of American excess, Steve Badanes's insights on the social responsibilities of architects, and HOME House Project Director David Brown's overview of the project and its continuing evolution.
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Ben Nicholson is Studio Professor of Architecture at Illinois Institute of Technology and author of The Appliance House.
Selected designs and essays document a multiyear national design initiative aimed at creating sustainable and environmentally-friendly low- and moderate-income housing.
Steven Miles, M.D., is Professor of Medicine and Bioethics at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. His forthcoming book, tentatively entitled, A Trustworthy Profession: The Hippocratic Oath, examines the meaning of the Oath using various cultural sources and Greek medical works from 400 B.C.E.
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.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Interesting Designs,
By Juan "Juan" (USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The HOME House Project: The Future of Affordable Housing (Paperback)
The book features +-100 designs for affordable and green housing. These homes are a result of a design competition using as program the Habitat for Humanity guidelines: small sq. ft. and low budgets. In addition these homes needed to be environmentally friendly. Among the designs are some very conceptual ones that actually will never be built, but is a good theoretical approach. There are many others that in fact, are 100% buildable and their solutions are very creative and diverse. I believe some of the winning designs are up for construction.
This is a perfect book for students, professionals, environmentalists and people who appreciate progressive architecture in general.
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No 'Real World' Relevence,
This review is from: The HOME House Project: The Future of Affordable Housing (Paperback)
Although interesting, these are designs and concepts that are not practical in the real world. But, if all you want are some pretty pictures...
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