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Welcome to "Design Matters," a catalog of exemplary affordable housing
located throughout the U. S. The City Design Center at the University
of Illinois at Chicago compiled this Internet catalog to recognize and
learn from the dedicated work of outstanding practitioners. A broad spectrum
of projects, built between 1980-2000, are presented: housing that is functional,
innovative, satisfying -- and above all, affordable to households with
limited incomes. The catalog demonstrates that:
Quality design can be affordable. Affordable housing can embody quality
design.
In the Design Matters catalog you will find examples of newly constructed
and rehabbed permanent housing representing a wide range of building types
and construction practices in urban, suburban, exurban, and rural areas.
The catalog illustrates how these projects support quality design by satisfying
a wide range of design objectives while containing construction costs.
Design Matters was created to fulfill a long-standing need for a readily
accessible, user friendly, free resource on affordable housing design.
It was designed to be easy to use and accessible to everyone, including
persons with visual impairments.
The Design Matters catalog was developed with the indispensable financial
support of the Fannie Mae Foundation, the Graham Foundation
for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, The Richard H. Driehaus
Foundation, individual donors, and the University of Illinois
at Chicago Office of the Provost and Dean of the College of Architecture
and the Arts. The committed experts that served as advisors, and the
professionals, staff, faculty, and research assistants who worked tirelessly
on the initiative have assured the exceptional quality of the catalog.
Lastly, the catalog would not be possible without the outstanding, dedicated
architects and developers whose projects are represented in this resource.
Note: While the catalog includes a wide variety of projects, it is
not representative of all the outstanding affordable housing projects
built in the U. S. in the past twenty years; rather, it is a compilation
of illustrative projects collected through nominations and an open call
for entries. Note too, that the information reported in the project descriptions
was provided by the project's developer, architect and/or other parties
involved in its production. The City Design Center cannot attest to its
accuracy.
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