The New York Times
Designing a Fix for Housing
In this Friday op-ed for The New York Times, Jeanne Gang and Greg Lindsay discuss how architecture and urban design must play a greater role in the resolution of America's suburban foreclosure crisis. "Designers and policy makers need to see the single-family house as a design dilemma whose elements—architecture, finance and residents’ desires—are inextricably linked," they write. "Solving the slump requires a multidisciplinary approach combining new design, new paths to homeownership and new zoning to support both."
Lindsay, an urban observer and author, was one of the members of Studio Gang's interdisciplinary team for MoMA's Foreclosed: Rehousing the American Dream exhibition, for which The Garden in the Machine project reimagining the future of housing in Cicero, Illinois, was developed.