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JOHN BROWN is the editor of theslowhome.com and the founder of the Slow Home Movement. He is a registered architect, real estate broker and Professor of Architecture at the University of Calgary.
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Old Buildings, New Uses
38 Davelin Road House
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Guerin Residence
Zartoshty Loft Renovation
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The Design Director of Urbanica is Stephen Chung, AIA. Prior to joining Urbanica, Stephen worked for a number of distinguished architectural firms, including Machado Silvetti Associates in Boston, and Richard Meier and Partners in New York. In addition to practice, Stephen has taught design and drawing at several schools including Cornell, RISD, Syracuse and Yale. Currently, Stephen is in development on a new TV show called “It’s A Cool World”. As host and co-writer, the show will feature emerging trends in architecture.
The President of Urbanica is Kamran Zahedi. Over the past twenty years, Kamran has designed, developed and built many projects in metropolitan Boston. More recently, he has focused his efforts on RFPs of city-owned historic buildings and converting them into new uses. Recently, Urbanica has been involved with three city-awarded projects, a former police station in Somerville, the former Area D4 police station in Boston’s South End and a former fire station in Belmont.
The Somerville project was completed in 2005 while the D4 Police Station project and the Belmont fire station will be completed in the winter of 2006. In the recent past, Urbanica has successfully completed two other Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) sponsored projects: a loft building conversion in the South End and the conversion of a warehouse into the Harborside Inn near the Boston waterfront.
Kamran received his B.S. in Architecture and Civil Engineering from MIT in 1980, and a Certificate of Achievement from the Center for Real Estate, also from MIT.
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We believe that our homes and neighborhoods should be healthy, vibrant places that uplift the spirit and gracefully fit our needs. We call for an end to poor construction, bad design, misleading marketing, unfair lending practices and environmental neglect in the housing industry. We acknowledge our collective responsibility to create CLOSE, SIMPLE, LIGHT places to live that leave a positive legacy for future generations.
provides design focused information that homeowners can use to improve the quality of how and where they live. It takes its name from the slow food movement which arose as a reaction to the processed food industry. The sprawl of cookie cutter housing that surrounds us is like fast food - standardized, homogenous, and wasteful. It contributes to a too fast life that is bad for us, our cities, and the environment. In the same way that slow food raises awareness of the food we eat and how these choices affect our lives, Slow Home empowers you to take more control of your home and improve the quality of how you live while reducing your environmental impact and futureproofing the long term investment value of your home.
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