Get an inside look at two architects—one in Japan and one in America–as they cross-pollinate ideas and practices on a new approach to home design, engineering, and building.
By John McManus | Builder
American home building’s business case for big change renders clearer and clearer and clearer each day that goes by.
The way builders build houses here needs this change. Without it, builders won’t be able to build houses here, save for a very few builders and a shrinking pool of customers.
Residential construction’s business model—iterated as a theme and a few variations across 10 or 20 decades—presumes a builder’s ability to get land, or skilled labor, or access to capital, or building materials at cut rates, because, depending on a housing cycle that booms or busts, supply far exceeds demand.
That model broke.
