In 300 words, present the main idea of a research essay discussing a key issue or core concept from the history of housing through the comparison of two or more, built or un-built, architectural projects, or other works. Your proposal should set up a research problem: its objective, conditions, method, important question(s) and a potential preliminary claim in response. This claim will be your thesis statement. Your proposal should have a working title. This title may be phrased as a research question. It may focus on issues of (among others): architectural typology, historical themes, or the evolution of housing concepts; social organization and change; private, communal, or public spaces; everyday, individual, family, communal or public life; work, leisure, domesticity, transit, infrastructures or utility; historical urban developments or socio-political context; formal, functional, structural, technological or symbolic organization; issues of invention, repetition, aggregation, flexibility, freedom, identity or community; crisis, vision or commonplace. Please ensure to list all the sources of your research proposal

In 200 words, write an essay outline