Housing the Future

Dr Graham Cairns, MA, B(Arch) BA, IE, RIBA, is an author and academic. He has taught at universities in Spain, the UK, Mexico, South Africa and the United States; worked in architectural studios in London and Hong Kong; and is currently editor of the academic journal Architecture_MPS. His previous titles include The Architect Behind the Camera (Abada Editores, Madrid, 2007); Deciphering Advertising, Art and Architecture (Libri Publishing, 2010); and The Architecture of the Screen Essays in Cinematographic Space (Intellect Books, 2013). He is also editor of Reinventing Architecture and Interiors the Past the Present and the Future (Libri, Publishing, 2013).

Housing The Future: Alternative Approaches for Tomorrow offers three perspectives on the problems of housing today with an eye on tomorrow. It brings together world-leading practising architects with academics from seven countries and teams of international students. World leaders in the field of residential design such as UN Habitat Award winner Avi Friedman present built projects whose design criteria and aims they lay out in text. Academics from the UK, the USA, Spain, Germany and elsewhere follow these project descriptions with extended essays from a more theoretical perspective but remain focused on the realities of practice. Finally, ideas on current housing problems from the next generation of designers are brought together in student projects from Europe and North America. With an introduction by Dr Graham Cairns, this book highlights the practice of residential design internationally at a time when affordable housing provision is seen as a critical issue by designers, planners and policy makers alike.