Improving Lives Through Accessible Design

In a workshop on how changing demographics are providing incentives to more inclusive design in multi-unit housing, Quadrangle Architects' managing principal Susan Ruptash compared the universal design in the built environment to environmental sustainability: “What’s it going to take to get this mainstream? When [clients] start wanting it, it will happen.” Quadrangle’s own studio in Toronto is a former corporate data center that has been transformed into an accessible, collaborative work space.