Cohousing-L Mailing List: Curious about your group's Cohousing Design Programming experience

[Carina Young (carinawyoung]

Our group (Harrisonburg Cohousing, in Harrisonburg, VA) is ready to begin
choosing an architect, and we're planning on considering some architects
with no cohousing experience. Would anyone on the listserv be willing to
share with me:

Did your group choose an architect familiar with cohousing?  If you did, do
you feel like they facilitated the design program well? If you chose an
architect who hadn't done cohousing before, did you have someone familiar
with cohousing design facilitate the design workshops? Or did you just have
the architect or some other facilitator run the workshop?

Our group has some conflicting opinions about how to move forward, and
we're looking for wisdom and insight from your experiences. (Some of us are
very in favor of having experienced cohousing design facilitators run the
design workshops, and some of us think a good architect with a good
non-cohousing facilitator would do a fine job.) Feel free to email me at
carinawyoung [at] gmail.com if you'd like to share off the listserv, or if you'd
be willing to talk with me over the phone.

Carina Young
carinawyoung [at] gmail.com