Architects with creative flair are needed to overcome stigmas around social housing, urges Polish-American architect Daniel Libeskind in this Social Housing Revival interview.
"More good architects should get involved in social housing," Libeskind told Dezeen. "We need creativity to overcome the social-housing stigma and we need architects who can invent new ways to create housing that is decent, has dignity, is beautiful and sustainable within the budgets allowed."
"If you're an architect that engages with the issue of housing in a creative way, then you're a much-needed solution to a problem."
Allan & Geraldine Rosenberg Residences is a social-housing block in New York designed by Daniel Libeskind Libeskind, whose eponymous studio completed a social housing project in New York last year, believes that creating better quality low-cost housing is one of the most urgent issues facing the world today.
He argued that many contemporary social-housing projects are designed by copying failed examples from the past that do not adequately meet people's needs.
"Too much of what we call 'social housing' is just formulaic from another era," he said. "It's popped out automatically in a typology that isn't very close to the human spirit."

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