CRENSHAW MARKET HOUSING
Prof. Hye Young Chung | Abhay Narasimhan | Emil Sarkisiyan | August - December 2025
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
ARCH 302a: Architectural Design III
In this course, students are asked to develop a series of innovative solutions addressing today’s critical housing needs. The profession of architecture has been involved in providing housing solutions since the late nineteenth century, as the rise of industrialization, in city after city, provoked migration from rural areas to urban cores. In an effort to influence the focus upon and provision of the massive housing needs for society’s poorest and working-class communities, the CIAM Congress of 1928 addressed the issue under the topic ‘The Minimum Dwelling,’ driven by the emerging possibilities of new materials and industrial mass production. While transformative and enormously effective at the time, helping to shape ways of denazifying cities, too often the architectural propositions resulting from these theories resulted in processes that focused on quantities, technical efficiencies, and minimal living requirements rather than qualities of experience.