Oct 1, 2020 04:30 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
The book captures the lessons of 20 years of community-based development to create beautiful, well-designed affordable housing for some of America’s most vulnerable communities, from the streets of Skid Row in Los Angeles to disinvested blocks of West Baltimore. These hopeful stories and photographs show how designers, social activists, and community members have worked together to improve justice and equity — even in the direst of circumstances of inequality, racism, and neglect. Work captured in the book includes:
Founded in 2000 by Frederick P. Rose, the Enterprise Rose Fellowship is a two-year partnership between Enterprise Community Partners, design fellows, and community partners that provides community design solutions in affordable housing and community development. The book serves as a tribute to what’s possible in communities, an inspirational read for all urban planners, designers, and policymakers who are looking for creative and affordable housing in communities, and for all who want to revel in the diversity of the American landscape and its people. The work is the foundation for Swenson’s work leading affordable housing initiatives across the country as a senior principal at MASS Design Group, a position she assumed on Feb. 1, 2020.
Proceeds from the book benefit the Rose Fellowship. Visit katieswenson.com or EnterpriseCommunity.org.
REVIEWS // WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT DESIGN WITH LOVE
“Design with Love demonstrates how these young design visionaries are helping to amplify the beating hearts of communities, spaces that bring safety, health, beauty, joy and comfort to families.”
Diane Ives, Fund Advisor, Kendeda Fund
“Dr. Cornel West teaches us that ‘Justice is what love looks like in public.’ Design with Love: At Home in America shows us what that looks like in built form. Every designer who strives to make the world a better place will find comfort and wisdom in these pages.”
Eric J. Cesal, Director of the Sustainable Environmental Design Major Program, UC Berkeley, College of Environmental Design
“In this remarkable book, Katie Swenson traces the experiences of ten former Rose Fellows as they navigate the daunting, complex, and often unfamiliar world of affordable housing. How refreshing, in a period marked by such spectacle and strife, to focus on something as timeless, fundamental and essential as love.”
David Gamble, AIA AICP, co-author Rebuilding the American City
