WHO CAN CATCH THE RAIN?

ABSTRACT

Cutting edge architecture has been popping up on Indian reservations. University students have been designing and building custom single-family homes on Native American lands over the past decade. This growing movement has been critiqued as an import of well-crafted buildings that fail to improve the lives of those living in them. While the delivery of high design residences to these communities may be new, the transporting of outside architecture here is not. Suburban-style tract home designs were built all over reservations in previous decades through programs sponsored not by schools, but by government agencies. Have the design schools applied the lessons learned from previous forays?