Architecture
How Missing Middle Housing Wins Approval And Works
Architect and planner Dan Parolek coined the term “missing middle housing.” His firm’s projects prove that thoughtful design, political navigation, and local momentum can overcome entrenched zoning resistance.
Leadership
Top 10 Trends Influencing A Homebuilding Pivot By 2030
Here's our No. 8 force-factor in a series of non-optional drivers of transformation among homebuilders and their partners. Guess what's in charge of how this is going to work?
Leadership
10 Trends In The '20s To Alter Homebuilding: #7 Digital Thread
The years leading up to 2030 will sharpen the non-optional value-generating potential of digital thread as an operational bulwark that engages each customer in an investment in what they value, and the removal of any feature, process, or characteristic that they don't.
Architecture
Where Deja Vu Meets Catch-22: How Housing Cuts Down On SKU
Housing's future is simpler and familiar. The pathway there, though, is more difficult and not well charted.
Building Tech & Products
Lennar, ICON Plan 100 3D-Printed Homes, Co-Designed By BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group
Lennar's move to team with ICON's 3-D construction technology in 2022 marks an inflection point for homebuilding's rapidly-consolidating business and investment model. Here's how this is a consumer strategy in disguise.
Architecture
How Builders Could Miss Where The Money Is Through 2030
Here's evidence that current investments in homes and communities that integrate livable design, universal design, and home health technology may fall short of the enormous opportunity.