Background
Avi Friedman was born on the 18th of July, 1952 in Israel, the son of Hain and Dina (Piha) Friedman.
Avi Friedman
Piazza Leonardo da Vinci, 32, 20133 Milano MI, Italy
Avi Friedman began his studies at the Politecnico di Milano in Italy.
1980
Haifa, 3200003, Israel
Avi Friedman received his Bachelor of Architecture from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in 1980 (first in class/cum laude).
1982
845 Rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montréal, QC H3A 0G4, Canada
Avi Friedman earned a Master of Architecture degree from McGill University in 1982.
1987
2900 Boulevard Edouard-Montpetit, Montréal, QC H3T 1J4, Canada
Avi Friedman earned a Doctor of Philosophy in 1987 from the University of Montréal.
2010
845 Rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montréal, QC H3A 0G4, Canada
CMT & UDH students with Profs. Annmarie Adams, Ricardo L. Castro & Avi Friedman, November 2010.
2015
845 Rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montréal, QC H3A 0G4, Canada
UDH students with Prof. Avi Friedman at Bois Franc, October 2015.
2016
845 Rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montréal, QC H3A 0G4, Canada
UDH students in the studio with Profs. Bhatt and Friedman, October 2016.
2017
845 Rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montréal, QC H3A 0G4, Canada
UDH students with Profs. Tureli, Bhatt, Luka, Mellin, and Friedman, September 2017
2018
845 Rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montréal, QC H3A 0G4, Canada
UDH students with Profs. Friedman, Luka, and Türeli, September 2018
1980
Haifa, 3200003, Israel
Avi Friedman received his Bachelor of Architecture from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in 1980 (first in class/cum laude).
1982
845 Rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montréal, QC H3A 0G4, Canada
Avi Friedman earned a Master of Architecture degree from McGill University in 1982.
1987
2900 Boulevard Edouard-Montpetit, Montréal, QC H3T 1J4, Canada
Avi Friedman earned a Doctor of Philosophy in 1987 from the University of Montréal.
2010
845 Rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montréal, QC H3A 0G4, Canada
CMT & UDH students with Profs. Annmarie Adams, Ricardo L. Castro & Avi Friedman, November 2010.
2012
Councillor Joan Robson, Councillor Ron Starr, Dr. Avi Friedman, Mayor Steve Parish, Chair Pat Mullin.
2012
Avi Friedman
2012
Dr. Avi Friedman
2015
845 Rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montréal, QC H3A 0G4, Canada
UDH students with Prof. Avi Friedman at Bois Franc, October 2015.
2016
845 Rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montréal, QC H3A 0G4, Canada
UDH students in the studio with Profs. Bhatt and Friedman, October 2016.
2017
Solving the affordable housing challenge in Peel will take a dramatic shift in thinking, according to Avi Friedman, a professor of architecture at McGill University. April 4, 2017.
2017
845 Rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montréal, QC H3A 0G4, Canada
UDH students with Profs. Tureli, Bhatt, Luka, Mellin, and Friedman, September 2017
2018
845 Rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montréal, QC H3A 0G4, Canada
UDH students with Profs. Friedman, Luka, and Türeli, September 2018
Piazza Leonardo da Vinci, 32, 20133 Milano MI, Italy
Avi Friedman began his studies at the Politecnico di Milano in Italy.
Avi Friedman
(With economic restructuring, demographic shifts, and life...)
With economic restructuring, demographic shifts, and lifestyle changes, the traditional family - working father, stay-at-home mother, two to three children - is no longer the norm and the need for smaller homes at moderate cost has skyrocketed. The first prototype of the Grow Home was built on the campus of McGill University in 1990 and more than one thousand units were built across North America and Europe in the first year alone. In this illustrated guide, Friedman describes the background, conception, and construction of these modest (14" x 36") homes.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0773522042/?tag=2022091-20
2001
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01K96DZ7O/?tag=2022091-20
2001
(With today's instant communication, the way we observe ot...)
With today's instant communication, the way we observe other people, other cultures, and other times has altered and been altered by, the homes we live in. Avi Friedman and David Krawitz guide the reader through the trends and changes that have influenced residential design and construction over the last fifty years. From kitchens to home offices to entire neighborhoods, they unravel the effect of technology and consumerism on the way we perceive and use domestic space, arguing that the home is no longer a product of pure design but a response to factors and forces beyond the control of designers, builders, and users.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0773524398/?tag=2022091-20
2002
(Written by an internationally recognized flexible housing...)
Written by an internationally recognized flexible housing advocate, The Adaptable House provides specific design approaches and techniques that facilitate flexible design both on the inside and outside making it simple to alter a dwelling layout, demolish partitions or build new ones, upgrade heating systems, change the locations of stairs, etc.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0071377468/?tag=2022091-20
2002
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0143050044/?tag=2022091-20
2005
(Homes Within Reach provides the first systematic guide fo...)
Homes Within Reach provides the first systematic guide for planning, designing, and constructing modest, yet high-quality, homes. From siting and foundations to systems, layouts, and interior and exterior finishes, it covers dozens of design and construction techniques that promote housing quality with sensitivity to lowering costs.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0471469866/?tag=2022091-20
2005
(Written by internationally renowned architect Avi Friedma...)
Written by internationally renowned architect Avi Friedman, Sustainable Residential Development equips you with a much-needed process and examples for planning and designing green communities. This landmark resource explains the principles of green building and how to apply them to residential development, presenting guidelines for creating communities that balance social, economic, and environmental needs.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0071479619/?tag=2022091-20
2007
(Since the beginning of the housing boom of the 1950s, the...)
Since the beginning of the housing boom of the 1950s, the size of the average North American house has steadily grown while the size of the average family has decreased. Today, a growing number of homebuyers seeking smaller, more efficient residential designs are rediscovering a centuries-old housing prototype: the narrow house. Measuring twenty-five-feet wide or less, these "infill" or "skinny" houses, as they are often called, are on the rise in cities and suburbs around the world.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1568988737/?tag=2022091-20
2010
(The book is about a search for good places authentic ones...)
The book is about a search for good places authentic ones and wondering about the disappearance of others. While visiting sixteen unique spots around the world, Friedman wondered what made strolling through, sitting in, dining at, or simply being there memorable. He reflected on the design of markets when he stumbled onto one at the crack of dawn in Dalian, China.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/161689038X/?tag=2022091-20
2011
(Despite a prolonged slump in the housing market, the dema...)
Despite a prolonged slump in the housing market, the demand for residential green building remains strong. More than ever, professionals need reliable information about how to construct or retrofit livable, sustainable, and economical homes. With Fundamentals of Sustainable Dwellings, Avi Friedman provides that resource.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1597268070/?tag=2022091-20
2012
(Recent societal changes have brought about renewed intere...)
Recent societal changes have brought about renewed interest from architects, town planners, housing officials and the public in terraces and townhouses. The small footprint that this style of the house occupies allows a sustainable high-density approach to habitation, slowing sprawl and creating an energy-efficient affordable living.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/041577912X/?tag=2022091-20
2012
(Housing is rapidly having to adapt to the global changes ...)
Housing is rapidly having to adapt to the global changes of the twenty-first century. These include the transformation of the family and the rise of the nontraditional household, increases in construction costs, and concerns over climate change and the depletion of natural resources. Designing residential environments that address these issues is an urgent priority.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1780672934/?tag=2022091-20
2013
(Written by a world expert in the field, Innovative Homes ...)
Written by a world expert in the field, Innovative Homes offers information on contemporary design concepts and illustrates them with examples of truly outstanding designs. Current modes of dwelling design are facing challenges of both philosophy and form. Approaches that have prevailed in past decades no longer sustain new demands and require innovative rethinking. The need for a new outlook is propelled by fundamental changes to the environment, economy, and society.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1864704926/?tag=2022091-20
2013
(Small and mid-sized suburban towns house two-thirds of th...)
Small and mid-sized suburban towns house two-thirds of the world’s population and current modes of planning for these municipalities are facing challenges of both philosophy and form. Common approaches that have prevailed in past decades no longer sustain new demands and require innovative thinking. Rather than dismissing small and mid-sized towns as unattractive suburban sprawl, Planning Small and Mid-Sized Towns offers ideas and methods on how small isolated and edge towns can be designed and retooled into sustainable, affordable and adaptable communities.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0415539285/?tag=2022091-20
2014
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01JXUCHTO/?tag=2022091-20
2014
(A presentation of contemporary houses that demonstrates h...)
A presentation of contemporary houses that demonstrates how domesticity can be beautiful and still help the planet. Have we passed a tipping point beyond which we can no longer reverse a course of action that was charted several decades ago Sustainable: Houses with Small Footprints argues that we can indeed detach our dwellings from a dependence on many external systems and resources and adopt other building practices.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0847843726/?tag=2022091-20
2015
(Current design modes of student residences are facing cha...)
Current design modes of student residences are facing challenges of both philosophy and form. Past approaches no longer sustain new demands and require innovative thinking. The need for a new outlook is propelled by fundamental changes that touch upon environmental, economic, and social factors.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1864705795/?tag=2022091-20
2016
(The book introduces challenges affecting smaller urban co...)
The book introduces challenges affecting smaller urban communities with fewer than 50,000 inhabitants and offers urban planning and building/architectural strategies to strengthen their city centers. It divides urban renewal of small towns into sub-components such as environmental challenges, demographic trends, economic changes and cultural aspects, and aging infrastructure. In each, context is established, and principles are outlined and illustrated. Topics include urban form, mobility and connectivity, infill neighborhoods design, wealth generation, and promotion of local culture and well‐being. Reinforced with detailed case studies, Fundamentals of Sustainable Urban Renewal in Small and Mid‐Sized Towns is an ideal resource for municipal planners, architects, civil engineers, and policy makers.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3319744631/?tag=2022091-20
2018
Avi Friedman was born on the 18th of July, 1952 in Israel, the son of Hain and Dina (Piha) Friedman.
Avi Friedman began his studies at the Politecnico di Milano in Italy, later he received his Bachelor of Architecture from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in 1980 (first in class/cum laude), he earned a Master of Architecture degree from McGill University in 1982 and Doctor of Philosophy in 1987 from University of Montréal.
Avi Friedman began his career as a professor and co-founder of the Affordable Homes Program at the McGill School of Architecture, McGill University in 1988. He is also an Honorary Professor of Lancaster University, UK.
Avi Friedman has published extensively in both academic and trade publications. He has authored 23 books and peer-reviewed articles on subjects ranging from prefabrication and construction technology to suburban planning and space management, for academic journals.
Dr. Friedman is a member of the editorial board of architectural journals and authored research monographs and articles in trade publications in the US and Canada. From 2000 to 2008 he wrote a bi-monthly syndicated column for the Canwest chain of daily newspapers. As part of his research, Avi Friedman has designed three housing prototypes that were built as full-scale demonstration projects and were then constructed by home builders around the world. The Grow Home (co-designed with Witold Rybczynski), a narrow-front rowhouse, received immense media attention and has since been built in numerous communities across North America and Europe.
Avi Friedman is the President of Avi Friedman Consultants, Inc., a design firm with a focus on affordable and sustainable residential environments. Since 1981, he has designed single-family dwellings, affordable and sustainable communities, undertook urban renewal of towns, master planning of cities and conversion of industrial buildings into residences. His list of clients includes governments, cities and private sector enterprises.
Dr. Friedman’s design work and projects have been cited in many books and have been covered extensively: on TV shows such as Good Morning America, Dream Builders and Stewart Brand’s How Buildings Learn (British Broadcasting Corporation), in magazines such as Popular Science, Architecture and Home, and in newspapers including The New York Times, Los Angeles Times and San Francisco Examiner.
Avi Friedman has been invited to speak on over 200 occasions at meetings of government officials, development authorities, university professors and students, homebuilders, architects and planners in locations as diverse as Dalian, Guadalajara, Prague, Las Vegas, Berlin and Haifa.
Friedman has received awards for his design and teaching, including the American Institute of Architects Education Honors, the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture Collaborative Practice Award, and the prestigious Creative Achievement Award. In 2000 the international design magazine Wallpaper included Avi Friedman in its list of 10 people "most likely to change the way we live," along with Ingvar Kamprad, founder of IKEA, and Sven Mattison, inventor of the Bluetooth computer chip. In 2004 he was referred to by Robert Scally, host of the television series The Innovators, as "the most influential housing innovator in the world".
(Written by an internationally recognized flexible housing...)
2002(With economic restructuring, demographic shifts, and life...)
2001(The book introduces challenges affecting smaller urban co...)
2018(Written by internationally renowned architect Avi Friedma...)
2007(Small and mid-sized suburban towns house two-thirds of th...)
2014(Written by a world expert in the field, Innovative Homes ...)
2013(Since the beginning of the housing boom of the 1950s, the...)
2010(With today's instant communication, the way we observe ot...)
2002(Recent societal changes have brought about renewed intere...)
2012(Homes Within Reach provides the first systematic guide fo...)
2005(A presentation of contemporary houses that demonstrates h...)
2015(Despite a prolonged slump in the housing market, the dema...)
2012(The book is about a search for good places authentic ones...)
2011(Current design modes of student residences are facing cha...)
2016(Housing is rapidly having to adapt to the global changes ...)
2013Dr. Friedman served as a member of many boards and committees in government and trade, including the National Advisory Council on Energy Efficiency, Order of Architects of Quebec and the National Housing Research Committee of Canada.
Quotes from others about the person
"Friedman is a whirlwind of energy, ebullience and no-nonsense arguments". - Canadian Geographic
Friedman is married to Sorel Thompson. They have two children, Paloma and Ben.
