Tim Love’s Northeastern Housing studios featured in alumni magazine
Northeastern’s housing studios were featured in the Spring 2008 issue of the Northeastern University Alumni Magazine. The article highlighted the program’s focus on brownfield sites in cities such as Somerville and Chelsea and the expectation that students grapple with “real life” issues such as development economics and regulatory frameworks during the design process.
Author Karen Feldster writes, “Tim Love agrees that the Housing Studio gives students a big hurdle to jump. ‘One thing about the studio is the mind-numbing complexity of housing,’ he says. ‘It’s like teaching someone to play an instrument really well in just a semester. Students have to understand multifamily housing, which includes the individual unit itself – kitchen, bedroom, living room, other rooms – and how you aggregate those units around corridors, staircases, elevators. In the world of architectural design, it’s like a Rubik’s cube.’ Selecting particular sites in the Boston areas makes the work even more complicated for students, because they have to design with real-world constraints in mind.”
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