Modern Housing
Contemporary residential architecture, from urban apartment blocks and renovations to affordable and community-scale housing designs.
Modern housing covers residential architecture shaped by current needs for density, affordability, adaptability, and environmental performance. Designers working in this area respond to urban infill sites, existing building stock, and the social and economic conditions that determine who a home is built for.
Work under this topic ranges from renovated historic neighborhoods and apartment developments to single-family houses, low-cost community housing, and experimental small-scale dwellings. Projects are presented alongside their planning context, construction methods, and the people they serve.
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L. McComber Builds Studio Apartments for the Old Brewery Mission That Blend into Montreal's Brick Streets
In Montreal, Pavillon Monk houses people experiencing homelessness in sunlit studios behind a curved brick corner, glass block stairs and a storefront.
Studio Saransh and IKSOI Stack a Pol-Inspired Multigenerational Home around a Heart-Shaped Stairwell in Ahmedabad
In Ahmedabad, a four-storey family home for six borrows the collective logic of the old city's pols, cooled by cavity walls and lit from a carved void.
HYAN Inherits a 1970s Timber House in Hayama and Turns It into a Home and Studio for Its Founders
In the hills of Hayama, a pre-1981 timber house survives as a layered home and studio of plaster alcoves, red tile and sunken rooms.
Home Futura: Three Stepped Prisms That Turn a Shaded Pine Plot Into a House of Glass
A modular house in Podkowa Leśna keeps a plain white face to the street and opens a sawtooth wall of diagonal glazing toward the sun and the trees.
