Category: Cooperatives

Oct 22, 2025 — Architect Sam Naylor, AIA

Register for this free virtual event to learn what Sam Naylor discovered about the influence of architecture on community living and his insights insights into how design can influence housing equity.

“The effect of housing design on cooperative living.”

Over three years, Sam Naylor, architect, educator, and researcher, visited over 100 cooperative housing projects on four continents. His visits included cohousing communities, housing cooperatives, and other informal communal living arrangements, which helped him distill the housing design elements that contribute most to the cooperative spirit and ethos of community living.

Architect Sam Naylor standing with arms crossed in front of a graytone architectural rendering of buildings.
Architect Sam Naylor, AIA


Architect Sam Naylor, AIA
“The effects of housing design on
cooperative living.”
Wednesday, October 22, 2025
Free virtual event, 7:00 to 8:30 pm

Register

Registration is required to receive your personal Zoom link for this event.

Sam works on multifamily projects with the architectural design firm, Utile. He is an author of the recently released report: Legalizing Mid-rise Single-Stair Housing in Massachusetts, as well as a co-editor of The State of Housing Design 2023, a book about national design trends—both published by The Harvard Joint Center for Housing. 

May 10 potluck info meeting: Building Community in Different Ways

Register now for the May 10th cohousing info meeting & potluck.

Join us Thurs., May 10, 2018 for “Building Community in Different Ways,” as we explore ways people can live together as a harmonious group. We are featuring a panel of three speakers: John Kalmon, a local architect versed in cohousing; Lindsey Flicker, outreach representative for Camphill Village MN; and Tom Pierson, independent cooperatives consultant who is on several co-op boards and will speak about cooperative living. Cost is $8.00. Bring a dish to share and enjoy a potluck meal.

So that organizers can set up the room appropriately, please register and pay at this link. A limited number of registrations will be taken at the door. Join us for an informative evening, good food and camaraderie.

*NEW* Location: Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church, 420 S Cedar Lake Rd, Minneapolis.

Schedule for the evening:

  • 5:30 pm – doors open
  • 6:00-6:45 pm – meal
  • 6:45-8:30 pm – panel discussion
  • 8:30-9:00 pm – clean-up

Register now.

See you there!

church building with lawn and trees
Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church – plenty of free on-street parking