European Collective Housing Award Opens for Second Edition | ArchDaily
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Join the conversation on collective housing! Submit your project for the European Collective Housing Award by April 30, 2025.
Save this picture!La Borda. Image © Lluc MirallesPublished on March 25, 2026 Share ShareFacebookTwitterMailPinterestWhatsappOrhttps://www.archdaily.com/1039884/european-collective-housing-award-opens-for-second-edition Clipboard "COPY" CopyCollective housing is a hallmark of Europe. The 2nd edition of the award is looking for collective housing projects to highlight their social impact and the policy frameworks that support them. Submissions are free and open until 30 April.Post-industrial modernity generated a wide range of collective housing models that left a lasting mark on European cities and architectural history: from the Hofs of Vienna and the Weissenhof Siedlung to Le Corbusier's Unité d'habitation and the works presented at Berlin's Interbau.The excesses of the modern movement cast a long shadow over social housing – a stigma that post-modernity failed to dispel. Yet since the turn of the millennium, new forms of collective housing have re-emerged, reconnecting with welfare-state ideals amid pressures from urbanization, property market tensions and ecological urgency. Save this picture!Wine storage into housing. Image © Philip HeckhausenToday, access to housing sits at the intersection of economic, social, and environmental concerns. Collective housing can support social diversity and environmental balance as an alternative to the expansion of single-family housing. As the Covid-19 pandemic underscored, housing is not merely the raw material of the city but an es...
