Innovative Houses

Introduction Section 1: Demographic and Social Trends 1 Live-Work Residences House S, Breda, Breda, The Netherlands: Grosfeld van der Velde Architects Intexure Live-Work Studio, Houston, Texas, USA: Intexure Architects 2 Aging in Place Villa Deys, Rhenen, The Netherlands: Architectural Office Paul de Ruiter bv 3 Multi-generational Living Jones House, Vordertau, Germany: Reinhardt Jung Ravine Residence,Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Cindy Rendely Architexture 4 Small Homes L41 Home, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada: Michael Katz, Architect and Janet Crone, Designer House to Catch the Forest, Negano, Japan: Tezuka Architects Section 2: Design and Production Methods 5 Adaptable Houses Butler House, Melbourne, Australia; Andrew Maynard Architects LiveWorkHome, Syracuse, New York, US: Cook+Fox Architects 6 Growing Homes MOMO - Modern Modular, Oland, Sweden: Grasshopper AB Prefab Lighthouses, Groningen, The Netherlands: DAAD Architecten, Beilen 7 Prefabricated Dwellings Wood House in Caviano, Caviano, Switzerland; Markus Wespi Jerome de Meuron architects BSA Zufferey House, Willis, Switzerland: Nunatak Sarl 8 Narrow Houses Narrow House, Tel Aviv, Israel; Ohad Yehieli Architects Layer House, Kobe, Japan: Hiroaki Otani 9 Plug-and-Play Designs Loftcube, New York, New York, US: Loftcube Inc. Arado weeHouse, Ontario, Canada: Alchemy 10 Healthy Indoor Environments NEXTHouse, Magnolia, Seattle, Washington, U.S.; David Vandervort Architects Steel Study House II, Leeuwarden, Holland: Archipelontwerpers Section 3: Energy and Resource-Efficiency 11. Net-Zero Dwellings LightHouse, Watford, England: Sheppard Robson Sunlighthouse, Pressroom, Austria: Hein-Troy Architects 12 Design for Passive Solar Gain Trial Bay House,Tasmania, Australia: James Jones, Architect / HBV Architects 13 Active Solar-Powered Dwellings Home for Life / Activehouse, Lystrup, Aarhus, Denmark: AART Architects Malibu 5, Malibu, California: Kanner Architects 14 Innovative Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning

Avi Friedman began his architectural studies at the Politecnico di Milano in Italy, receiving his doctorate from the University of Montreal, Canada. He is a professor at the McGill School of Architecture, Quebec, and has published extensively about architecture in both academic and trade publications.