What typology of housing will be at the end of the rainbow?
Australia, with its eyes locally focused but with a continuing awareness of developments around the world, has tackled social housing in a variety of ways. However well-meaning, some have been successful, others far less so.
With a photographs and commentary on a variety of social housing projects over the decades, Tone Wheeler, an Australian architect and professor with plenty of opinions, runs his personal rule over 10 different social housing architectural typologies.1
Read more in ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN: Tone on Tuesday: On Social Housing Part 3 – Typologies
Footnotes
- Tone’s thinking sometimes runs on the same tracks as Margaret Mead. See: Remembering To Build Community Into Social Housing Design
