Daniel Kaven sat down with KGW to discuss the current barriers to affordable housing in Portland:
“On the top floor of a modern North Portland high rise, architects work against a difficult production process for one of the city’s greatest needs.
“Housing is extremely important, and housing is in short supply,” said Daniel Kaven, co-founder of Willian Kaven Architecture and author of Architecture of Normal: The Colonization of the American Landscape. His company specializes in housing development, including apartment complexes with some units set aside for low-income tenants. “The process is really slow and cumbersome currently.”
Watch the segment HERE.
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Episode 35: Architecture of Normal - William / Kaven Architecture’s Daniel Kaven with Host Daniel Safarik
W/K partner Daniel Kaven sat down with Unfrozen Podcast host Daniel Safarik (Director, Research and Thought Leadership at Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat) to talk about his new book, Architecture of Normal (Birkhäuser, 2022), along with suburbanization, flying cars, and why “Generation Z needs to get out in the streets and be really pissed off about work-from-home.”
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"On the Road or In the Air, Daniel Kaven Sees the Journey as Destination": Daniel Kaven sits down with Metropolis to discuss Architecture of Normal and the future of cities in America.
Read More“Architecture of Normal: The Colonization of the American Landscape reads like an enthralling textbook—a breezy history teeming with photography, original artwork, and timelines—even as its author offers a more cautionary take on what we have wrought.”
—Brian Libby, Metropolis
Richard Speer reviews Daniel Kaven’s Architecture of Normal for The Democracy Chain.
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W/K partner Daniel Kaven talks Architecture of Normal with host Brandon Gaston for Season 3, Episode 2 of GRAY Magazine’s “In the Design Lounge” interview series.
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