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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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On the disappearance of American starter homes

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The disappearance of such affordable homes is central to the American housing crisis. The nation has a deepening shortage of housing. Related on Archinect: Why is America obsessed with huge homes? At the root is the math problem of putting — or keeping — a low-cost home on increasingly pricey land.

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Winners Announced for the 2023 International Holcim Awards

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For the Latin American territory, Cano Vera Arquitectura was selected for an urban forest and social infrastructure precinct, and for the MEA region, Juergen Strohmayer and Glenn DeRoché were praised for a youth empowerment and responsible tourism cooperative. Read more »

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Mayors across U.S. voice their struggles in tackling housing crisis and homelessness

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Mayors across a variety of American towns and cities have used the U.S. Conference of Mayors to voice concerns about their ability to address the dual crises of housing affordability and homelessness. As reported by Politico , specific struggles shared by mayors include attracting investors, housing density, and racial disparities.

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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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Town over gown: Local zoning holdups could be preventing the expansion of America’s elite colleges and universities

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[The] quintessential local issue of zoning squabbles ends up generating a national scarcity of elite college admissions slots, fueling zero-sum competition and ultimately reducing America’s ability to increase global “exports” of its best-in-class high-end higher education product.

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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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Under the guidance of assistant professor Tonya Ohnstad, lead fabricator Lorenzo Cardim DeAlmeida, and museum director Abeer Saha, the group will explore its potential usage as affordable, resilient housing.