“The effect of housing design on cooperative living”
Over three years, Sam Naylor, architect, educator, and researcher, visited over 100 cooperative housing projects on four continents. His visits included cohousing communities, housing cooperatives, and other informal communal living arrangements, which helped him distill the housing design elements that contribute most to the cooperative spirit and ethos of community living.
Register for this free virtual event to learn what Sam Naylor discovered about the influence of architecture on community living and his insights insights into how design can influence housing equity.
Architect Sam Naylor, AIA
“The effects of housing design on
cooperative living.”
Wednesday, October 22, 2025
Free virtual event, 7:00 to 8:30 pm
Registration is required to receive your personal Zoom link for this event.
Sam works on multifamily projects with the architectural design firm, Utile. He is an author of the recently released report: Legalizing Mid-rise Single-Stair Housing in Massachusetts, as well as a co-editor of The State of Housing Design 2023, a book about national design trends—both published by The Harvard Joint Center for Housing.
