Design as Advocacy: Housing

Undergraduate / Graduate

This course positions the architect as an advocate, engaging the building and zoning code as a critical site of design practice in addressing the housing crisis. Rather than treating regulation as a constraint, students will examine how architects can shape policy to expand housing supply, affordability, and typological breadth. Focusing on "missing middle" housing, the course investigates how provisions-such as egress requirements, parking requirements, and unit standards-shape the production of housing, inclusive design, alongside emerging nation-wide movements such as the expansion of ADUs.