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  • Architect Laura Fitch honored
    November, 2006

    Cohousing architect Laura Fitch of Kraus-Fitch Architects in Amherst, MA was given the BAC Distinguished Alumni Award from the Boston Architectural College in November 2006. The primary reason that the nominating committee chose Fitch was what they viewed as her progressive work with cohousing communities.

  • Common sense approaches to common houses
    by Laura Fitch, principal, Kraus-Fitch Architects, Inc.
    May, 2004

    The kitchen and "great room" are the two most important spaces in a common house, they should feel like a natural extension of each individual home. Your community can begin to create this homey environment during the design process by allowing everyone to have a say and ownership in the decisions. The design itself, balancing functional requirements with coziness, is equally important.

  • 2008 Pre-conference Tours & Workshops

    Tours

    Thursday, June 12: Full Day Bus Tour, Western Massachusetts
    Visit Pioneer Valley Cohousing (Amherst, MA), Pathways Cohousing (Florence, MA), Rocky Hill Cohousing (Florence, MA) and Treehouse (Easthampton, MA) communities in the beautiful Berkshire mountains!

    Friday, June 13 Morning: Half Day Bus Tour, Boston Area I
    Visit Jamaica Plain Cohousing (Boston, MA), Cambridge Cohousing (Cambridge, MA) and Cornerstone Village Cohousing (Cambridge, MA) communities.
    Note: The second half-day tour duplicates two of the three communities visited in the morning tour.

    Friday, June 13 Afternoon: Half Day Bus Tour, Boston Area II
    Visit Cambridge Cohousing (Cambridge, MA), Cornerstone Village Cohousing (Cambridge, MA) and New View Cohousing (Acton, MA) communities.

  • 2003 Review

    A celebration of community and a better way of life

    by Diane Leafe Christan

    “You are literally creating a new culture,” sociologist and market researcher Paul H. Ray, Ph.D., declared in his keynote speech to the attentive crowd gathered in Boulder, CO, for the Cohousing Association of the United States’ biennial National Cohousing Conference.

  • Kraus Fitch Architects, Inc

    Kraus-Fitch Architects is nationally recognized as one of the most experienced architectural firms working with cohousing. In addition to full architectural services, Kraus-Fitch offers meeting facilitation and cohousing workshops focusing on programming and schematic site, common house and unit design. The office of Kraus-Fitch Architects is located at Pioneer Valley Cohousing, where both Mary Kraus and Laura Fitch have lived since 1994. Laura studied cohousing in Denmark in 1980, and both have visited and worked on cohousing throughout North America.

    413-549-5799
    Kraus-Fitch Architects website (www.krausfitch.com)
    Kraus-Fitch Architects - on Cohousing.org

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