Walter Marin, founder of Marin Architects, shares how the covid crisis has roiled residential architecture ? especially for Gen Zs.

The pandemic has uprooted long-standing ideas about fundamental things: where we live (and with who), how we work (and where), and how to balance the myriad tensions balancing isolation and freedom, public health and personal pleasure.
No discipline is immune from these ground-up revisions ? including architecture, which usually evolves over years, not months. For many homeowners (current and prospective), the must-haves are different from what they might have been in March. Here, we speak with Walter Marin, founder and senior principal at Marin Architects, about how the covid crisis has roiled residential architecture ? especially as it affects Gen Zs. Will they prioritize living alone, when roommates represent both an uncontrollable risk and omnipresent company as they WFH" Will they accept the trade-off in isolation to live with high-risk parents" And will they still buy into the age-old story of coming to the big city to make their fortune ? even if it means living in a 300-square-foot studio with a view of a brick wall"
As you think about COVID-related architectural evolutions, on what sort of timeline are you thinking" Near, intermediate, long-term" Are you considering this as something that’s here to stay"
We likely won?t see the full effect [of the pandemic] for another five to ten years. Co...