Competition: win a book about affordable housing ideas from Bee Breeders
In our latest competition, we've teamed up with architectural think-tank Bee Breeders to offer five readers the chance to win a copy of its publication addressing issues of affordable housing.
Titled What is Affordable Housing", the book is the first volume of Archhive ? Bee Breeders' annual print publication. It aims to connect architects, investors and organisations whom are actively working to create new precedents in the housing crisis.
Through interviews with companies, opinion pieces, essays and proposals for affordable housing, the book aims to look past design as the only solution for the problematic global housing market.
"It is a subject central to the studies and pursuits of urbanists, architects, engineers, and designers, as well as sociologists, economists, and politicians," reads the book's introduction. Split into three sections, the first features interviews with and features on companies and individuals already working to create alternative models for low-cost housing.
The next section comprises a series of opinions and essays, whilst the final part offers examples of design projects.
Examples of interviews about projects that are already underway can be found in the first section, including a conversation with Andreas Tjeldflaat about his Homed unit.
Tjeldflaat designed the housing after meeting an individual he described as a victim of New York's brutal housing-market conditions.
The proposal aims to provide housing all year round within ...
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