October 2009
3 posts
blessed are those who hunger and thirst for...
a couple of weeks ago a woman came to stay at the house with us. she had found stable housing for a time but then the program that helped her regain stability, lost its own footing. she was faced with the inevitability of returning to a men’s overflow shelter where she, a trans woman, would have to present as male. i was contacted on her behalf and later that week she came to stay with us. during...
a thoughtful incremental housing strategy →
“what the architectural profession lacks is an understanding of its own social importance…you are those who provide mankind’s shelter. remember this, and then look at our cities, our slums to realize the gigantic task awaiting you. you are not hired lackeys of the rich. you are crusaders in the cause of the underprivileged and unsheltered.”
-ayn rand (quoted in the...