Grace Kim: What Happens When You Design A Home With Community In Mind?

By Manoush Zomorodi,

Maria Paz Gutierrez, Sanaz Meshkinpour

Published April 24, 2020 at 9:05 AM EDT

Part 3 of the TED Radio Hour episode

For architect Grace Kim, the antidote to isolation is co-housing. She describes how she built a home鈥攁nd a community鈥攂y designing an apartment building for her family and eight other families.

About Grace Kim

Grace Kim is an architect and a co-founding principal of , an architectural practice that focuses on building community and social equity. She is also the founder of , a collaborative residential community in Seattle.

Kim is currently a commissioner of the Seattle Planning Commission and serves on the Board of Directors for the Housing Development Consortium, an advocacy group for the affordable housing industry. For four years, she also served on the board of the Cohousing Association of the United States.

This segment of TED Radio Hour was produced by and edited by Sanaz Meshkinpour. You can follow us on Facebook @and email us at TEDRadioHour@npr.org.