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Social Housing in America: Architects Must Answer the Call

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Boston Road provides 154 units of housing for formerly homeless people, many of them seniors and living with HIV/AIDS, as well as low-income working adults from the South Bronx. Image © Michael Moran If you follow housing policy in America , you may have noticed a particular term cropping up a lot recently: social housing.

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Winners Announced for the 2023 International Holcim Awards

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DnA_Design and Architecture Studio took home the golden prize for Asia-Pacific for an adaptive reuse project of a heritage building, while Husos , Elii , and Ultrazul won for Europe with a 360° co-design process for the rehabilitation of an industrial building. Read more »

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In Latin America, Modernism Began at Home

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"Crafting Modernity" at New York’s Museum of Modern Art positions midcentury houses as sites of experimentation and transformation. Latin America is known for iconic midcentury architecture, from Luis Barragán’s Mexico City houses to Lina Bo Bardi’s glass-walled Casa de Vidro in São Paulo.

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Architecture students will reconstruct an original Buckminster Fuller geodesic dome at the National Museum of American History this summer

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Beginning in early July, a group of students from the school’s undergrad and graduate programs will work together on the reconstruction of the more than 70-year-old The Weatherbreak design created by Fuller protégé Jeffrey Lindsay in the museum’s Flag Hall.

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Looking to the future, Moody Nolan will lead the design of a new science center at Morgan State University

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To date, the firm has completed more than 30 projects at HBCU campuses throughout the country, including the soon-to-be-opened Thurgood Marshall Hall residential housing at MSU, which has been pursuing an expansion of its STEM and other research.

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Montgomery County has found a way to reinvigorate public housing in America

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As part of Dezeen's Social Housing Revival series, we look at how one county in Maryland is leading the way in the US after devising a novel public-development strategy to help combat its housing crisis. Like much of the rest of the country, it is in dire need of more affordable housing.

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Uruguayan architect Rafael Viñoly dies aged 78

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Uruguayan architect Rafael Viñoly , who designed hundreds of projects including skyscrapers 432 Park Avenue and the Walkie Talkie , has passed away aged 78. His studio was responsible for designing numerous large-scale buildings across the globe including the super-skinny 432 Park Avenue skyscraper in New York.

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