Lilly Saniel-Banrey

Designer of many things. Sowing joy and wellbeing into the details of everyday life. Currently at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. See a full scope of work including architecture, graphics, objects, and documents. Or just see my current projects.

The State of Housing Design 2023


 Published 2023
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with Joint Center for Housing Studies
Harvard Graduate School of Design
Research Assistantship under co-editors Sam Naylor, Chris Herbert, and Dan D’Oca

Book design by Normal
 The State of Housing Design 2023 is the first book in a new series that reviews national trends, ideas, and critical issues as they relate to residential design. This volume examines recently built housing projects of notable design that address issues of affordability, social cohesion, sustainability, aesthetics, density, and urbanism. Through critical essays, visual content, and a crowdsourced survey of responses, it provides both designers and the general public with an overview of the forces at play in contemporary design of housing.


Start to Finish. The publication entailed a year of research - synthesizing themes and writing proposals for potential contributors, soliciting for contributors, conducting a nationally-distributed survey and culling results. In tandem, themes produced editorial illustrations, diagrams, photographs and drawings of each of the projects.