Affordable Housing: Designing an American Asset
The Left Bank, 3101 Walnut
The University of Pennsylvania
Some of the country’s most gifted architects are focusing
their visions and energy on designing attractive, efficient
homes for low-income families. Their work shows that low-
cost housing can be both quality housing and a community asset.
This exhibition features selected projects from across the
United States and places them within the broader contextof
affordable housing history.
The Affordable Housing: Designing an American Asset traveling
exhibition and associated tour were organized by the National
Building Museum, Washington D.C., and made possible by generous
grants from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development,
Fannie Mae Foundation, and the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS.
The Philadelphia exhibition is being presented in partner-
ship with the University of Pennsylvania School of Design,
Department of City Planning, and Center for Innovation in
Affordable Housing Design. Additional support is being provided
by the University of Pennsylvania Facilities and Real Estate
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Newsletter page:
The Center’s Newsletter will come
out by e-mail monthly and will pull information from a wide
range of interests that is relevant to the design of affordable
housing. We will be presenting information that is useful
and interesting for the following groups: design and
planning students, professors, community developers, community
members, architects, and planners among others.
Contact us at copc@design.upenn.edu
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