Design Matters Symposium
Anticipated in Fall 2001
The City Design Center held a national symposium to launch the Design
Matters: Best Practices in Affordable Housing catalog. The symposium provided
various forums for professionals involved in affordable housing production
- developers, architects, financiers, representatives of governmental
agencies and others - to discuss the pressing issues surrounding the design
of affordable housing. Plenaries, panels, case studies and workshops addressed
such issues as: construction cost containment; impact of design regulations
and review; designing for diverse households; fair housing act accessibility
requirements; methods of community participation; energy and resource
efficiency; self-help housing; making density work; adaptive reuse; manufactured
housing; alternative building materials; accessory apartments; affordable
housing design education; and achieving aesthetic quality for modest cost.
Two exhibits accompanied the symposium: “Points of View, From Chicago’s
Affordable Housing Community,” and a digital exhibit, “Design
Matters Interactions.”
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Symposium Coordinator
Roberta Feldman, Professor, School of Architecture, and Director, City
Design Center
Affiliated Faculty and Staff
Drew Browning, Associate Professor, School of Art and Design
Tasneem Chowdhury, Coordinator, Affordable Housing Program, City Design
Center
Elizabeth Kocs, Design Research Associate, City Design Center
Funding
Fannie Mae Foundation
Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
Private Donors
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