The Living Home

Adaptable housing for healthy urban living.

How can architecture satisfy the economical and spatial
preferences of its future occupants?
Affordable
Flexible
Adaptable
Sustainable
Catalyst for growth


Working bibliography



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Baker-Laporte, Paula, Erica Elliott, and John Banata. Prescriptions for A Healthy House: A practical guide for architects, builders, and homeowners. Gabriola
Island: New Society Publishers, 2001.

Baum, Andrew, and Stuart Valins. Architecture and Social Behavior: Psychological studies of social density. New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1977.

Brand, Stewart. How Buildings Learn: What happens after theyre built. London: Penguin, 1994.

Friedman, Avi. The Adaptable House. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2002.

Friedman, Avi. The Grow Home. Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press, 2001.

Friedman, Avi, and Doug Raphael, eds. The Affordable Homes Program: Teaching, Research, Knowledge Transfer. Montreal: McGill University, 1996

Harris, Steven, and Deborah Berke, eds. Architecture of the Everyday. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1997.

King, Anthony D., ed. Building and Society: Essays on the social development of the built environment. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1980.

Schoenauer, Norbert. 6,000 Years of Housing. New York: W.W. Norton, 2000.

Sewell, John. Houses and Homes: Housing for Canadians. Toronto: James Lorimer and Company, 1994

Van Uffelen, Chris. Low Price Houses. Berlin: Braun, 2011.

Wright, Gwendolyn. Building The Dream: A social history of housing in America. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1983.