Michael Pyatok FAIA ( ; born 1944) is an Oakland-based architect widely known for his expertise in the development and design of low-income and affordable housing. He has been a Fulbright Scholar in

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where he studied the housing policies of Scandinavia.

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appointed him a Loeb Fellow in 1983 where he used the resources of the Business School and the Kennedy School for Public Policy to explore strategies for non-profits to develop decent and affordable housing in this age of shrinking public involvement. He is co-author of ''Good Neighbors: The Design of Affordable Family Housing'' (1995). Although his practice is based in Oakland, Pyatok was a professor of architecture at the

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in Seattle from 1990 to 2003 and from 2007 to 2012. From 2003 to 2007 he headed a center devoted to housing at Arizona State University. He is now a Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington. Pyatok was elected a

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in the

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in 1995.

Publications

* Pyatok, Michael, Jones, Tom, and Pettus, William, ''Good Neighbors: The Design of Affordable Family Housing'', McGraw-Hill, New York 1995,

References

External links

AIA Seattle Honors Archive

Pyatok Associates
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