Starts:
02:00pm, Monday, 13 January 2025
Until:
10:00pm, Wednesday, 29 January 2025
Housing Standardisation: Who Designs Our Homes and How Do We Live?
In January, three events will take place as part of the exhibition Housing Standardisation: Who Designs Our Homes and How Do We Live? at the Building Centre. This exhibition explores recently built housing in England, Chile, China, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Spain, analysing their diverse housing systems and provisions through 37 in-depth case studies of affordable homes. It focuses on the experiences and everyday lives of residents, examining how design governance, housing standards, socio-cultural expectation, and home use shape perceptions of ‘well-designed’ and ‘affordable’ homes – and how these are highly contextual.
The exhibition is the result of the three-year Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded project 'Housing Standardisation: The Architecture of Regulations and Standards'.
Co-organised with the Architecture Foundation, this roundtable is the first of three events in January with housing practitioners, discussing how housing design, standards, policy, and quality relate to affordability, equity, and lived experiences. Despite extensive standardisation and regulation, both the realities and perceptions of housing and design quality vary significantly across regions, countries, and households, affecting housing outcomes and wellbeing.
Tickets are avaliable from the Architecture Foundation Shop. Regular Tickets, £7.50 and Student Tickets £5.
Event 2 - Tuesday 21 January 2025
Roundtable Participants:
- Kyle Buchanan (Director, Archio Architects)
- Susan May (Head of Housing Design, Urban Design London)
- Andrej Mećava (Principal Urban Design Officer, Hounslow Council)
- Amanda Rashid (Principal Urban Designer, Hounslow Council)
- Sam Jacoby (Professor of Architectural and Urban Design Research, Royal College of Art)
- David Stronge (Design Director, Peabody)
- Emily Greeves (Director, Emily Greeves Architects)
- Lucia Alonso (Royal College of Art)
Event 3 - Wednesday, 29 January 2025
Speakers will talk about their work in relation to the exhibition, followed by a roundtable discussion.
- Alex Ely (Founding Director, Mae Architects)
- Mellis Haward (Director, Archio Architects)
- Elanor Warwick (Head of Strategic Policy and Research, Clarion Housing Group)
- Rupesh Varsani (Development Director, Berkeley Group)
- Esther Kurland (Director, Urban Design London)
- Rachel Hutchison (Senior Programme Manager, Place & Infrastructure, Design Council Homes Taskforce)
- Mark Tuff (Partner, Sergison Bates)
