Collaborations in Housing Design: Lessons from Architect and Developer by Crispin Kelly and Ellis Woodman looks at three decades of housing produced by the developer Baylight Properties in partnership with some of Britain's most respected architects, and asks what that way of working can teach the wider industry.
About This Book
Kelly, an architect by training, founded Baylight and has spent 30 years commissioning residential work from leading British practices. Here the architects themselves—Stephen Bates, Philip Christou, Tom Emerson, Tony Fretton, David Kohn, Alex Lifschutz, Peter Salter, Alan Stanton and Stephen Taylor—talk openly about the schemes they delivered with Baylight: what they set out to achieve, what stood in the way and what had to give.
The book sets these projects within a much longer story of British homebuilding—from the great London estates and the model villages of industrial philanthropists such as Port Sunlight and Bournville, to Georgian and Victorian speculative builders and the architect-developers of the postwar decades. Ellis Woodman, director of the Architecture Foundation, opens with an essay on why good housing has been so hard to build in the UK over this period and what distinguishes Baylight's approach from volume housebuilding. It closes with a checklist of the qualities that make homes rather than simply houses.
Key Features
- Candid reflections from nine leading British architects on their work with a single developer
- An introductory essay by Ellis Woodman, director of the Architecture Foundation
- Places recent schemes within Britain's long history of estate, philanthropic and speculative housebuilding
- Concludes with a practical checklist for making successful homes
What You'll Discover
- How a sustained developer–architect relationship can raise the quality of residential design
- The ambitions, constraints and compromises behind individual housing schemes
- How shifts in UK planning, regulation and housing culture have shaped what gets built
- What separates considered, design-led development from mainstream volume building
About the Author
Crispin Kelly trained as an architect and founded the property development company Baylight Properties. Ellis Woodman is director of the Architecture Foundation.
Specifications
- Format: TBC
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- Language: English
- ISBN: 9781848227279
- Publisher: Lund Humphries
Perfect For: Architects, developers, planners and students concerned with housing quality, and anyone following the debate about how Britain builds homes.