Excerpted from ‘Architecture in 2018: Look to the streets, not the sky’, written by Sean Weiss, Assistant Professor of Architecture, City College of New York and published by The Conversation:
”The architecture of social engagement – the idea that buildings should address inequality and improve the lives of all dwellers – first started gaining steam during the Great Recession. It’s important to continue moving this work out from under the shadows of the glossier buildings that tend to receive the most media attention.
Three projects to be built in 2018 – a library in Brooklyn, a low-income housing project in Chicago and transitional housing for the homeless in Los Angeles – demonstrate architecture’s unique power to build, sustain and forge communities.”
