Project Location: Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States Building Type:Community Center, Residential – Mixed Development, Youth Center Project Descripton: The Catholic Worker Movement, founded by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin in 1933, is grounded in a firm belief in the God-given dignity of every human person.
Today over 185 Catholic Worker communities remain committed to nonviolence, voluntary....
Project Location: Northern Cheyenne Nation, Montana, United States Building Type:Residential - Single Family Project Descripton: An Ecological, Affordable Home Prototype
“The Northern Cheyenne Tribe faces a severe shortage of housing with over 800 heads of household currently enrolled on our list waiting for homes. We would like to thank Red Feather for its....
“I took the planner, surveyor and engineer from my office to see [the Hopi straw-bale home]. We all said, ‘I want one, too.’ We do have a housing problem here. We need homes, and this is....
Project Location: Tuba City, Arizona (Navajo Nation), United States Building Type:Residential - Single Family Project Descripton: A family of community-designed housing prototypes
“Straw bale construction is at once an American invention and a sustainable answer to housing needs on and off the reservation.”
Project Location: Cambridge, Ontario, Canada Building Type:Residential – 4+ BR Project Descripton: The GRAND HOUSE STUDENT CO-OPERATIVE is an incorporated, non-profit, housing co-op, with the goal of demonstrating sensitive aesthetic and environmental design, promoting innovative living and exploring both traditional and alternative construction....
