Research on multifamily housing and its impact on the daily lives of ordinary people, from a leading Canadian architectural firmThese four slipcased volumes build on 5468796 Architecture's housing manifesto Add via Edit: A Decade in Housing, the symposium platform.MIDDLE: Architecture for Housing the 99 hosted at Illinois Institute of Technology and examples by practice-related offices.The work and research of the Winnipeg-based firm 5468796 Architecture (described as one of the most talented young design firms worldwide ) has focused on missing middle and midrise housing in its many forms and ownership models, from refugee and social housing to market-rate condominiums. With the condominium boom taking hold across North America, the number of residential units passing across architects' desks is unprecedented. As a result of the typology's inherent repetition and potentially banal program-as well as the private sector's pursuit of profit, often at the expense of quality and livability-the margin in which architecture can operate is very narrow.