Designing for Dignity 2: Accessible Homes
When we study design, we are taught the importance of the balance between form, function and feeling. Successful design achieves […]
Sophia de Sousa
Posted on Jun 20, 2025
What? in Housing
Last night, I attended a Negroni Housing Roundtable, part of the Negroni Talks Series at the Architectural Association School of […]
Sophia de Sousa
Posted on Jan 29, 2025
Designing for Dignity & Independence
Last year, I helped my mother move into a new home. As a fiercely independent woman in her eighties, my […]
Sophia de Sousa
Posted on Oct 1, 2024
Wider Issues in the Built Environment: The Ecological Crisis
This is the third of three think pieces drawing on my own experience of architecture and the built environment, educationally […]
Jake Stephenson-Bartley
Posted on Aug 19, 2024
Glass-House Chats: Homes or Housing?
17 October 2023 At our first Glass-House Chat of Season 4, Housing or Homes?, we were keen to explore the […]
Sophia de Sousa
Posted on Oct 23, 2023
Design Training Workshop: Homes & Neighbourhoods by Design
On Saturday 19 November, The Glass-House delivered a full-day, in-person Design Training workshop, which was an introductory session from our […]
Jake Stephenson-Bartley
Posted on Nov 29, 2022
Diversifying Design: Natural voices in traditional Damascene architecture
Written by guest author Ahmad Loukeh. Artist, architect, and MSc Urban Regeneration student at the Bartlett School of Planning. Thomas Merton […]
Guest Author
Posted on May 9, 2022
Co-designing shared community space: Play as a Design Tool with Dr Kate Langham
Community engagement in the urban design process requires collaborative approaches that can build effective dialogue to develop a shared understanding of places, […]
Guest Author
Posted on May 18, 2021
What’s Vital Now? ‘What If…. Lambeth managed its green spaces for biodiversity and food growing?’ with Incredible Edible Lambeth
What’s Vital Now? is an online series that shares voices from different communities, sectors and disciplines, on what we can […]
Guest Author
Posted on Sep 21, 2020
‘Sense of Belonging and Togetherness’ – Creating Better Neighbourhoods
As part of Quality of Life Foundation‘s Sense of Belonging and Togetherness Panel Discussion our Chief Executive Sophia was posed […]
Sophia de Sousa
Posted on Sep 3, 2020