The Future of Housing Standards

Watch back the series of short lectures about the future of housing standards given in collaboration with the RCA.

The Future of Housing Standards

 

This event discusses challenges in defining affordable, decent, or adequate housing and providing homes that are equitable and sustainable in the long term. It brings together architects, housing practitioners, and researchers to discuss future housing standards and ambitions.

Curated by Sam Jacoby and Lucia Alonso, of the Royal College of Art, this symposium was part of the project ‘Housing Standardisation: The Architecture of Regulations and Design Standards’, funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council.

 

 Dr Alvaro Arancibia discusses concepts of the housing model in Chile.

Josep Maria Borell talks about new housing paradigms and community building.

Tina John, Senior Creative & Architectural Design Manager at Pocket Living, discusses housing affordability and communities.

Levent Kerimol is director of Community Led Housing London.

Denise Koeleveld, architect at Ymere, talks about housing standards in the Netherlands.

Dr Beth Stratford's research focuses on how environmental protections must go hand in hand with measures to diffuse rentier power and redistribute economic rents.

 

Sam Jacoby talks about the architecture of regulations and housing standards. 

Dr Jennifer Duyne Barenstein discusses the role of housing cooperatives in the provision of affordable housing and innovative. housing in Switzerland.

 

The films can be viewed on the Architecture Foundation Youtube Channel.