As an essential player in a new approach to planning and architecture, A. Quincy Jones considered all his projects to be a way of reinventing domestic life and the making of architecture. Examples include the cooperative community of Crestwood Hills, Jones and Emmons's pioneering work on system-built Eichler Homes, and innovative open plans such as Jones's own steel house, Jones Steel House #2. With Cory Buckner.

In conjunction with the exhibition A. Quincy Jones: Building for Better Living.