NEWS
September 2010
- LISC Awarded Groundbreaking Social Innovation Fund Grant
- Fox Courts Is Reader's Choice Finalist for Affordable Housing
- Sustainable Bamboo Shed Takes Shape at Fox Courts
- Swan's Market 10 Years Later (Oakland Tribune)
- Seven Directions Wins Gold Nugget Award for Mixed Use
- EBHO Sponsors Affordable Housing Week
- Fox Courts Wins Sustainable Enivronment Award for RCD
- Totem Poles Installed at Seven Directions
- Pyatok Plan Earns EPA Senior Community Award
- Civic Engagement Artist Rene Yung Tells Stories
BEFORE DESIGN: The Politics of Change
Fox Courts, an 80–unit affordable housing development for individuals and families, is the product of a struggle for housing equity. When Fox Courts opened in 2009, it marked the culmination of a decade–long battle for convenient, attractive, affordable housing. Today, as families settle in the vibrant, downtown Oakland neighborhood, it stands as a symbol of the community standing up to powerful interests — and winning.
EQUITY, CULTURE & ARCHITECTURE
Published in AIA Seattle’s Fall Forum
Architecture is not an art that can exist in a cocoon, independent from the social order. If we can use design as
our means within Culture to rectify the shortcomings of Law and the Economy, we may find an arena that brings us that much
closer to the yearned–for ideal of economic and social equity.
COMPLETE ARTICLE
PLACES BY DESIGN
Decades have passed since the heady days of Urban Renewal when public and private capital transformed neighborhoods in ways that stripped them of their complex histories and realities. No longer do ... (more)