Collective Living and the Architectural Imaginary: The Power of Drawing as Research

What does it mean to design a dwelling in a city simultaneously shaped by affordability crises, displacement, climate risk, and the erosion of shared public life? Can drawing, as a mode of inquiry, reveal what policy and data alone cannot? And what would it look like to treat collective housing not as a delivery mechanism but as an architectural and cultural project capable of reshaping urban life?

On the occasion of the publication of Collective Living and the Architectural Imaginary, the three authors join Adare Brown for a conversation about housing, drawing, and the city. The book examines sixty housing projects across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, redrawn by the research team using a consistent representational language, arguing that the way we design collective housing is one of the primary instruments through which cities are spatially and culturally shaped.

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Felipe Correa

Partner, Somatic Collaborative

Senior Advisor for Urban Strategy, Aspen Institute, @felipecorrea_sc

Anthony Averbeck

Visiting Associate Professor, Northeastern University School of Architecture, @anthonyaverbeck

Devin Dobrowolski

Architect at Elliott Architects, @dobrowolski.devin

Moderated by: Adare Brown

Architect and Visiting Lecturer, Bard College, @adarebrown

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