One House Per Day is a slow meditation on the place of the detached house in the architectural discipline and in broader culture. The basic proposition of the project is that a continued engagement with the detached house as a source of architectural innovation may enable the discipline to stay relevant in an American culture in which the detached house remains by far the most popular form of dwelling. As it stands now, the continued dominance of the detached house serves to maintain the continued dominance of the nuclear family structure. Even the default nomenclature of the detached house - “single family” - promulgates a situation in which the house solidifies dominant social arrangements and forecloses upon alternatives to the nuclear family. By engaging with the detached house as a typology, One House Per Day has tried to question this by imagining different ways of life that might take place within the detached house. Thus, each house in the series in some way embodies an idea about reorganizing domestic space within the paradigm of the detached house.
On this website you can see an archive of houses from the project. It will eventually include other offshoots and explorations, including images, writing, and some behind the scenes stuff.