Research on multifamily housing and its impact on the daily lives of ordinary people, from a leading Canadian architectural firm
These four slipcased volumes build on 5468796 Architecture-s housing manifesto -Add via Edit: A Decade in Housing-, the symposium -platform.MIDDLE: Architecture for Housing the 99%- hosted at Illinois Institute of Technology and examples by practice-related offices.
The work and research of the Winnipeg-based firm 5468796 Architecture (described as -one of the most talented young design firms worldwide-) has focused on -missing middle- and midrise housing in its many forms and ownership models, from refugee and social housing to market-rate condominiums. With the condominium boom taking hold across North America, the number of residential units passing across architects- desks is unprecedented. As a result of the typology-s inherent repetition and potentially banal program-as well as the private sector-s pursuit of profit, often a
