"Tiny Home"

Historically, we see architecture as a profession that is reactive to the cultural changes and world events. Giancarlo De Carlo, speaks about how CIAM's first objective after WWI was to figure how to solve the housing problem in the afflicted countries that suffered massive loss of infrastructure and proper housing to their people. Their primary focus was on how to develop quantity and cost savings when producing the government housing rather than taking the opportunity to understand why. This resulted in tiny units that focused on minimizing square footages. In reality, we can understand that they required a quick and "temporary" solution for as many people as possible. However, overtime this created more problems and more problems. This still raises the question of why do we need to aim to develop the cheapest and easiest product at the cost of social degradation and loss of community in an already devastated area?

We can still see this way of thinking today with housing developments popping up left and right. Projects that aim for the cheapest solution to a housing need with no consideration for the surrounding area or even those that use the building. Today, it continues to be an avenue for profit rather than a moment of community and public growth.