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Housing Standardisation and Design Governance book cover

1st Edition

Housing Standardisation and Design Governance

By Sam Jacoby, Alvaro Arancibia Copyright 2026
330 Pages 162 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

330 Pages 162 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Equitable access to decent housing remains a major global challenge, particularly for lower-income populations reliant on subsidised, affordable homes. This is exacerbated by the continued commodification of housing, demographic change, and the increasing time many people now spend at home. Addressing these challenges requires, as this book argues, stronger state intervention, closer... Read more

Introduction: Housing Standardisation and Design Governance

Sam Jacoby and Alvaro Arancibia

Part 1: Study Contexts

1. The Design Governance of Subsidised Housing

Sam Jacoby

2. Comparative Housing Design Research

Seyithan Özer and Sam Jacoby

Part 2: Design Governance Histories

3. Housing Standards and Standardisation in England: A Historical Study of Design Governance

Lucia Alonso Aranda and Sam Jacoby

4. The Evolution of Housing Design Standards in Chile

Alvaro Arancibia

Part 3: Systems and Standards

5. Housing Systems: Subsidised Housing Design and Regulatory Instruments

Seyithan Özer and Sam Jacoby

6. Housing Standards: Socio-technical Design Controls

Seyithan Özer and Sam Jacoby

Part 4: Homes

7. In-depth Case Study Cartographies

Lucia Alonso Aranda, Seyithan Özer, Consuelo Albornoz Marambio, Claudia Andrea Chavarría, and Sam Jacoby

8. Home Use Studies: An Insight into Lived Experiences

Lucia Alonso Aranda, Consuelo Albornoz Marambio, and Sam Jacoby

9. Wellbeing and Housing Quality: Comparative Case Studies in Six Countries

Lucia Alonso Aranda and Consuelo Albornoz Marambio

Part 5: Conclusion

10. Decent Homes: Emerging Bodies of Evidence

Sam Jacoby

Biography

Sam Jacoby is Professor of Architectural and Urban Design Research, Research Lead of the School of Architecture, and Director of both the Intergenerational Design Lab and the Laboratory for Design and Machine Learning at the Royal College of Art. His interdisciplinary work is focused on the social impact of design research, spatial strategies, and architecture.

Alvaro Arancibia is an architect trained at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, with an MPhil in Urban Design and a PhD in Architectural Design from the Architectural Association in London. His work bridges practice and research, focusing on collective housing and urban design in Santiago, Chile. His doctoral thesis received the AA Graduate Prize for Research: Outstanding Work 2015–2016, and between 2022 and 2025 he was co-investigator of the project Housing Standardisation: The Architecture of Regulations and Design Standards. Through his practice, he has won several housing competitions organised by the Chilean Ministry of Housing, including the Mirador Laguna project, completed in 2024. His research and design work have been published internationally and presented at universities in Chile, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Mexico, contributing to debates on housing policy, standards, and typologies.

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