Design with Love
At Home in America
Published on 28. September 2020
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-0-7643-5993-4 (ISBN)
Description
A collection of ten photo-illustrated stories demonstrating how Enterprise Community Partners has had a positive impact on some of America's most vulnerable communities through housing deign, community development, and more.
Over the last 20 years, the Enterprise Rose Fellows-a program of Enterprise Community Partners-have gained a deep understanding of the conditions that cause housing insecurity, poverty, and injustice by embedding themselves in the communities where they work.
By using proven design processes, artistic practices, and community engagement principles, and committing to long-term collaborations with residents, they have drastically improved the quality of life in vulnerable communities. Simply put, they have changed lives.
This collection of stories and intimate documentary photographs delivers lessons in how we can work together to improve the lives of our neighbors. On the US-Mexico border, in farm country, in Rust Belt cities, and in pockets of blight and abandonment, the examples show that architecture is about human relationships and shared ambitions, and how buildings can support and embody them.
Over the last 20 years, the Enterprise Rose Fellows-a program of Enterprise Community Partners-have gained a deep understanding of the conditions that cause housing insecurity, poverty, and injustice by embedding themselves in the communities where they work.
By using proven design processes, artistic practices, and community engagement principles, and committing to long-term collaborations with residents, they have drastically improved the quality of life in vulnerable communities. Simply put, they have changed lives.
This collection of stories and intimate documentary photographs delivers lessons in how we can work together to improve the lives of our neighbors. On the US-Mexico border, in farm country, in Rust Belt cities, and in pockets of blight and abandonment, the examples show that architecture is about human relationships and shared ambitions, and how buildings can support and embody them.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Atglen
United States
Illustrations
150 color images
Dimensions
Height: 267 mm
Width: 229 mm
Weight
1406 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7643-5993-4 (9780764359934)
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Katie Swenson is a nationally recognized design leader, researcher, writer, and educator. Katie was formerly vice president of design & sustainability at Enterprise Community Partners, a national nonprofit that invests over $1 billion annually in community development.
Harry Connolly is a photographer whose work takes him across the USA and occasionally overseas. He is the author of Fighting Chance: Journeys through Childhood Cancer, 1993-1998 and Heading Home: Growing Up in Baseball.
Harry Connolly is a photographer whose work takes him across the USA and occasionally overseas. He is the author of Fighting Chance: Journeys through Childhood Cancer, 1993-1998 and Heading Home: Growing Up in Baseball.