Housing for the people: What opportunities exist for this democratic ideal now that the scope for publicly funded architecture is being curtailed in so many countries by the free market? Who are breaking the boundaries to create innovative housing stock? Are attitudes changing towards what is possible? How are the employment of pre-fabrication techniques, materials and information technologies being harnessed? Or could the new alliances that are being hammered out between designers and housebuilders signal the onset of a new era of design-conscious private mass housing? With contributors writing on six distinct geographical areas –Australia, Japan, The Netherlands, Sweden, the UK and the UK – as well as emergency dwellings, a worldwide perspective is established. Agrest and Gandelsonas Alsop Architects Architectenbureau Marlies Rohmer BKK-3 Architektur Brunnberg & Forshed Arkitektkontor Caples Jefferson Architects Kerry and Lindsay Clare de Rijke Marsh Morgan (dRMM) Design Inc FOB Homes Gans & Jelacic Alexander Gorlin Architects Vicente Guallart Hanrahan + Meyers Architects Haworth Tompkins Architects Kazuhiro Kojima Marpillero Pollak Architects Mecanoo Architecten Mikan-Sei Homes NL Architects Oldhausen DuBois Pasanella + Klein Stolzman + Berg Proctor and Matthews Architects Pugh Scarpa Kodama Architects Sergison Bates Architects Ken Smith Stanisic Associates and Turner Associates Stephenson Bell Jens Th Arnfred Thanhauser Esterson Kapell (TEK) Architects Urban Affairs and Joep Mol Architects Weiz + Yoes