The Architect's Newspaper January/February 2025
Dennis Crompton, Archigram’s archival “keeper of the flame,” dies at 89 page 8
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AN heads to the San Francisco Bay Area to visit Sidell Pakravan Architects page 16
At Making Home— Smithsonian Design Triennial, a vast and ephemeral show page 80
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CCA’s To Build Law follows the start of a pro-renovation campaign in Europe page 81
SEEKING HOME IN AMERICA
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Eavesdrop: OTM vs. LARA Profile: Curry J. Hackett Marketplace Comment: Viren Brahmbhatt and Richard Plunz
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The housing crisis shapes how we live today. Across this issue, AN covers a variety of topics—policy, single-stair code reform, office-toresidential conversions, affordable housing, ADUs, duplexes, and more—in search of solutions. ROBERT DEITCHLER
Our inaugural list celebrates rising residential architecture design talent in New York. Read on page 27.
After City of Yes, Pitch Perfect Awesome and Amenity What’s Next? in NoBo Affordable Now
BRUCE DAMONTE
WORKac’s North Boulder Library opens in Colorado. Read on page 12.
Los Angeles faces a huge housing crunch, with thousands of people living on the streets and numerous low-income workers unable to afford market-rate rentals or mortgages. Absent a large-scale housing program, dedicated developers and designers are piecing together residential solutions on infill sites that model high ideals. They often confront complex financial and political challenges, along with resistance from neighbors. To allay concerns, explain challenges, and elevate appreciation for affordable housing in Los Angeles, Friends of Residential Treasures Los Angeles (FORT: LA) and Frances Anderton created Awesome and Affordable: Great Housing Now, a multiplatform project that includes an explainer about L.A.’s housing unaffordability and ways to tackle it (The Case for Great Housing); a Housing Terminology Playbook, written by David Kersh, that unpacks the policies, laws, and players underlying continued on page 21
CHASE DANIEL
Architects share how they design shared spaces within multifamily projects. Read on page 24.
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It’s a good time to be a New York architect, potentially. The 2025 mayoral race is heating up, and housing is expected to dominate the debate stage given the city’s affordability crisis. If the candidates are to be believed, tens or even hundreds of thousands of new units will begin construction under their watch, should they be elected. The numbers are eye-catching in a city beset by bureaucratic stumbling blocks to creating new housing and updating old stock. Mayor Eric Adams set the tone with his City of Yes series of zoning changes, which were modified and then approved by the city council in December of last year. City of Yes aims to deliver 82,000 new homes by 2040, said Adams, who is campaigning on this and other promises to improve access to affordable housing while also making it easier to build and complete residential projects. His competition is stumping on housing issues too. continued on page 10
Case studies and products. Read on page 51.
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