Six rules for housing design in the city
Turner, David
Date
2019-08-22Citation:
Turner, D.F. (2019). Six rules for housing design in the city. Architecture Now, 22 August 2019, 1. https://architecturenow.co.nz/articles/six-rules-for-housing-design-in-the-city/Permanent link to Research Bank record:
https://hdl.handle.net/10652/5949Abstract
Almost every discussion of housing amongst architects turns to a critique of design priorities in the speculative market – the product of an industry that supplies two-thirds or more of all housing in cities in New Zealand and Australia. These conversations become a litany of complaints about architecture-free house-building in the suburbs with their decoration-only louvres, their south-facing picture windows, their garages in the sunniest spot on the plan, and always the front door embellishments that provide “street appeal”.
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What does design of housing involve for architects? And in what way does higher density housing differ from the suburban paradigm?