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Developer: The Business of Creating Successful Sustainable Communities
10.05.2008 | Hanley Wood Developer
Developer: Good Fellows Jonathan Rose gives young architects a chance to make a difference.
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New kind of architectural hero
07.01.2008 | “Fellowship of the Roses” | Metropolitan Home | Karrie Jacobs
The Rose Fellowship is featured in the summer issue of Metropolitan Home. “Fellowship of the Roses: A forward-looking partnership trains young architects in the art of the possible” by Karrie Jacobs.
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Local affordable housing non-profit buys in to building green
06.19.2008 | “Habitat for Humanity Goes Green” | Durango Telegraph | Will Sands
The local chapter of Habitat for Humanity receives a Green Communities grant for the construction of eight duplexes designed by Ophelia Wilkins. These homes will be the first affordable housing development in La Plata County to be built green.
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A Conversation with Katie Swenson
05.09.2008 | Enterprise Community Partners | Christina Noble
The Rose Fellowship is in the AIA (American Institute of Architects) newsletter this month in a conversation with “Emerging Professionals.” Read the full article, W O R D S BY...A Conversation with Katie Swenson, Rose Fellowship Director. Interviewed by Christina Noble, Associate AIA, LEED AP.
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Metropolis Magazine profiles the Rose Fellowship — “Learning Curve” by Suzanne LaBarre
03.01.2008 | “Learning Curve” | Metropolis Magazine | Suzanne La Barre
Metropolis Magazine highlights the work of the Rose Fellowship in the March issue of Metropolis Magazine. “CAD monkeys No More” shares the trials and tribulations of the field work of Rose Fellows Carey Clouse, David Flores, Esther Yang and Katie Swenson.
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Regional Housing Alliance expands its potential for meeting the affordable housing need in La Plata County with the arrival of a Rose Fellow
12.13.2007 | “Affordable Housing Testing Ground” | Durango Telegraph | Missy Votel
The formation of the Regional Housing Alliance - a new and innovative government agency - has been in the spotlight since re-structuring in 2007. With its very first public service programs emerging in autumn 2007, the arrival of a Rose Fellow marks the inception of the Land Development program which promises to bring new affordable housing to the market.
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BusinessWeek.com profiles Rose Fellow Nathaniel Corum’s facilitation of Navajo Elder Straw Bale Housing initiative and launch of Open Architecture Network
12.01.2007 | “Cutting Edge Designers” | BusinessWeek.com | Web Editor
BusinessWeek.com profiles Rose Fellow Nathaniel Corum and his work with Indigenous Community Enterprises, a Navajo nonprofit, as an example of the case studies on Architecture for Humanity’s Open Architecture Network. The Elder Hogan Homes project was conceived with a group of Navajo elders focused on designing community home prototypes and culturally-appropriate housing for Navajo elders and their families.
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Architecture, Wealth, and Community Design
10.01.2007 | National Organization of Minority Architects | Katherine Williams
If homeownership is deemed the road to wealth for average citizens, what role do architects have in the equation? Ms. Williams looks at various methods of making home ownership affordable and encourages architects to look beyond typical housing developments to creative solutions that give this opportunity to a wider swath of people.
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Rose Fellowship featured in ARCHITECTURAL RECORD
08.01.2007 | “Nonprofit work experience: beneficial for all, but far too rare” | Architectural Record | Casius Pealer
“Nonprofit work experience: beneficial for all, but far too rare:” Article by Casius Pealer on the increasing role public and nonprofit practices are playing in the professional development of young architects.
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PLAN Magazine previews Rose Fellow Nathaniel Corum’s forthcoming community design initiative with Navajo nonprofit
06.01.2007 | “Navajo Elder Hogan Homes” | PLAN Magazine | Richard Conway
PLAN Magazine previews Rose Fellow Nathaniel Corum’s forthcoming community design initiative with Navajo nonprofit Indigenous Community Enterprises and Architecture for Humanity’s open-source design platform the Open Architecture Network.
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A permanent home for the Eastside Arts Alliance
12.31.2006 | “Artists finally find home in EastSide Cultural Center” | Oakland Tribune | Kamika Dunlap
Eastside Arts Alliance had been leasing space for several years because they were committed to serving the San Antonio District. With rising property values, they realized that owning a permanent cultural center would allow them more sustainabiilty for their mission.
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Rose Fellow’s design for Hopi Elder housing included in Dwell magazine survey of humanitarian architecture
09.01.2006 | “Design Like You Give a Damn” | Dwell Magazine | Kate Stohr & Cameron Sinclair
An article drawn from Architecture for Humanity book Design Like You Give a Damn, (Metropolis, 2006) highlights case studies of architectural solutions to humanitarian crises-including the Hopi elder housing design of Rose Fellow Nathaniel Corum.
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Elderly residents sue to stay in Chinatown — the first steps to buying their own building!
09.01.2006 | “Elderly Residents Sue to Stay in Chinatown” | Asian Law Caucus
Many of the building’s residents have lived in Chinatwon most of their lives, and consider their neighborhood and community vital to their survival.
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Senator Sessions announces the succesful funding of Design Corps’ grant for the Self-Help Housing Program
08.30.2006 | “Sessions Meets with Sowing Seeds Self-Help Housing Workers” | Perry County Herald
“The Started Self-Help Housing program which is a USDA program — much like the Habitat for Humanity program — where individual house designs for low-income families with adequate credit are built for local families. The Job-Training Center dovetails to the SHH program — where families learn employable skills as they build their homes. A local non-profit will receive funds to own and operate the building and also run other job-training programs, in addition to the Self-Help Housing Program, from the building.”
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Reaching for the American Dream: After fighting an eviction, Chinatown renters unite to buy their building as a limited equity housing cooperative
07.25.2006 | “Reaching for the American Dream: Chinatown renters unite to own homes” | San Francsico Chronicle | Vanessa Hua
These residents took a stand for their community, and built a permanent stake in the neighborhood for themselves and their children.
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The ground-breaking ceremony for Job-Training Center.
07.07.2006 | “Breaking Ground for Job-Training Center” | Perry County Herald
On 7/6/2006 Perry County Commissioners, City Council members and other key partners in this project arrived at the site for a gound-breaking ceremony for the new Job-Training Center in the Marion Industrial Park. After seven plus years in the making, this was a momentous ceremony for many.
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A redesigned community courtyard space makes use of an environmentally friendly surface material
07.06.2006 | “Where red is green” | Los Angeles Times | SCI-Arc
An underutilized courtyard space at this multifamily affordable housing property owned by LINC Housing was transormed into an activity space for the community. Students and faculty from the Community Outreach Program of the Southern California Institute of Architecture, together with Noel Toro designed, fundraised and built the project with support from the L.A. Community Redevelopment Agency.
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A public family forum discovers how to attract and retain families in an emerging urban neighborhood
06.06.2006 | “Plenty of condos, but where are all the kids?” | The NW Examiner | Linda McDonnell
Ben Gates organized and facilitated a family forum, together with neighborhood and city co-sponsors, asking parents and children for input about how the city could build a more family-friendly Pearl District neighborhood (also known as the River District.) At the forum the neighborhood discovered what’s missing: affordable 2, 3, and 4 bedroom units and a community center and child-care services.
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An alternative career path in Architecture
06.01.2006 | “After Architecture School: Joshua Galloway” | Architectural Record | Sarah Cox
Do you have to join a firm after Architecture School. See one graduate’s path to sustainable and affordable housing.
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Designing to Stay: renovating an old apartment building that low-income seniors in Chinatown have called home for over 50 years
06.01.2006 | “The Fong Building: Design for Low-Income Chinatown Tenants” | Asian Neighborhood Design | David Wu
Through community organizing and sustained collaboration, AND is able to renovate an apartment building based on the needs articulated by community members.
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Affordable adobe construction that gives back to the people who invented it.
05.06.2006 | “Room for Improvement” | The Sun-News Reporter | S. Derrickson Moore
Spencer Haynsworth in collaboration with Cornerstones Community Partners coordinated an Adobe Demonstration Workshop to increase awareness about an age old construction method that is both affordable and green. This hands-on taught community members how to make adboe block using simple and readily available materials of clay, straw, and water.
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Where are all the families in the central city
05.04.2006 | “The Pearl’s intent on finding it’s families” | The Oregonian | Su-jin Yim
In a fancy urban neighborhood, touted for it’s livability, why aren’t there more families? A family forum has been scheduled to find out.
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In San Francisco, where rampant gentrification and displacement seems the rule of the day, this is an important anti-displacement victory
05.01.2006 | “Anti-Displacement Victory in San Francisco” | Dollars & Sense | Tom Wetzel and James Tracy
In the inner-city wars of gentrification, the "right to the city" is a key concept. A community land trust, working with a group of organized seniors with a fighting spirit, helps them buy their building from their landlord, and works to renovate it to fit their needs.
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Designer Katie Swenson’s definition of a dream house is one that's affordable, eco-friendly — a great for a family.
03.01.2006 | “Home Is Where Her Heart Is” | Family Circle | Steven Dougherty
Katie Swenson, the director of the Rose Fellowship program, is featured in the March issue of Family Circle magazine for being a mother, an architect and an advocate for green affordable housing.
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Architecture magazine reviews Building a Straw Bale House by Rose Fellow Nathaniel Corum
11.01.2005 | “BOOK: Building a Straw Bale House” | Architecture Magazine | Robert Klara
Building a Straw Bale House by Rose Fellow Nathaniel Corum is reviewed by Robert Klara in Architecture magazine. Klara writes: “fascinating reading ... the communal exercise becomes the pancultural equivalent of a barn-raising.”
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Replicable straw bale home built for Hopi elder and her family
05.06.2005 | “House made of straw model for Hopi village” | The Arizona Republic | Judy Nichols
Arizona Republic covers the community and volunteer-based construction of Hopi elder housing designed and organized by Rose Fellow Nathaniel Corum and Red Feather staff. This affordable and green prototype home serves as a replicable model for future quality housing for the Hopi people.
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Rose fellow gives perspective into community-based, design/build process
03.01.2005 | “Anatomy of a build” | Eco-structure Magazine | Nathaniel Corum
Rose Fellow Nathaniel Corum writes ‘Anatomy of a Build’ for eco-structure magazine descibing the design/build process from the site of a volunteer educational facility build undertaken with Turtle Mountain Community College (Ojibwa) in North Dakota.
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Perry County Commissioners donate one acre of their land towards the Job-Training and Child Care Center.
09.22.2004 | “Commission Grants Marion One Acre of Land” | The Marion Times-Standard
Victoria Ballard Bell went before the Perry County Commissioners and requested that the County donate one acre of land in the Marion Industrial Park for the construction of the new Job-Training and Child Care Center. This parcel of land helps to make the location visible from the road and more accessible to the community. The County support the project and generously donated an acre for this project.
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Associated Press explains Red Feather housing initiative and Rose Fellowship
09.06.2004 | “Indians getting straw houses” | Associated Press | Sarah Craig
This Associated Press article highlights the history and process of Red Feather Development Group a nonprofit formed to address severe housing shortages with American Indian communities. The Rose Fellowship adds in-house design services to Red Feather and amplifies the community design aspect of this ongoing work.
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Stanford magazine profiles alum/Rose Fellow Nathaniel Corum during design/build project
09.01.2004 | “Being there: Bale Bonding” | Stanford Magazine | Laura McDaniel
Stanford Magazine profiles Stanford alum/Rose Fellow Nathaniel Corum and his work with Red Feather and an Ojibwa community on the design and construction of an Environmental Research Center on the Turtle Mountain Community College build site.
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Former Mayor Edward Daniel gives an inspiring speech to the Marion City Council encouraging them to fully support and help with the construction and funding of the new Marion Job-Training and Childcare Center.
05.16.2004 | “Former Mayor visits old haunt Monday” | Perry County Herald
Former Mayor Daniel was the Mayor when this project began and was always an energetic and enthusiastic supporter of the project. His inspiring words in support of Design Corps and the project was noted that evening at the City Council meeting.
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Architecture magazine profiles several people involved in community design movement including Rose Fellow
04.01.2004 | “Architecture in the public interest” | Architecture Magazine | Abby Bussel
The editor of Architecture magazine asks: is there a community design movement afoot, and examines the practice of several designers including Nathaniel Corum a Rose Fellow working with American Indian communities toward culturally-appropriate housing.
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The Tributary (Bozeman, MT) interviews Rose Fellow about straw bale construction, American Indian housing issues, and community design
04.01.2004 | “Q&A: Nathaniel Corum, teaching straw bale construction, bale by bale, home by home” | Tributary | Megan Ault
A description of American Indian housing, this article focuses on shortfalls and the presentation of one solution: straw bale construction and volunteer building crews that touches on the history, technology and urgency of a Habitat for Humanity style construction process being carried out in the Northern Plains by Red Feather and Rose Fellow Nathaniel Corum.
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Making the case for green building and affordable housing.
01.01.2004 | “Sustainability: Protecting our Future” | Enterprise 2003 Annual Report
This article makes the case for green building in general and with respect to affordable housing. Two projects from Rose Fellows are highlighted, Colin Arnold at Community Housing Partners, and Michael Gatto at Foundation Communities.
