May 10th, 2012 | by Flavia Scognamillo | published in Featured, Internships 2012
My internship takes place right here in Barcelona, a city of the developed world where the global financial crisis makes daily headlines and a wide range of short-term policy measures prove more or less effective. In this context, the economic recession has already affected flows of international aid and downward trends in Official Development Assistance [...]
May 7th, 2012 | by admin | published in Blog, NewsBites
Shortly after the devastating earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan in March 2011, we heard about Shigeru Ban’s plan to build a multi-storey temporary housing in Onagawa. Completed nearly 9 months later in November 2011, the complex was deemed a success, with claims like “residents are so satisfied with their interim accommodations that they have [...]
May 2nd, 2012 | by admin | published in Blog, NewsBites
The world’s largest architectural award just got bigger. The Aga Kahn Foundation has announced a doubling of its prize to US$ 1 million. Given every three years in reward for projects that address the needs of Islamic societies and use local resources and appropriate technology in innovative ways, the prize was doubled to enable winners [...]
May 1st, 2012 | by admin | published in Blog, NewsBites
We came across this article in the Solutions Journal on the role and responsibility of architects in disaster risk management written by several experts in the field, including two of last year’s visiting professors: architects Marie Aquilino and Sergio Palleroni. In the article, the authors explain the complexities of disaster reconstruction, cite real-life examples, and [...]
April 18th, 2012 | by Yuya Fukada | published in Internships 2012
In this series, students document their experiences during the internships in 2012. Scattered across the globe, they are reporting from places like Haiti, South America, Africa, Mongolia and Japan. ———————————— Yuya Fukada reports on his internship with UNICEF in Rwanda. Six weeks have already passed since we started our internship with UNICEF Rwanda. So far, [...]
April 2nd, 2012 | by admin | published in Blog, NewsBites
Announced just last week, the winners of the 2012 Holcim Awards for Sustainable Construction are a secondary school project in Gando, Burkina Faso, a community center project in São Paulo, Brazil, and an urban renewal plan in Berlin, Germany, selected from more than 6,000 entries in 146 countries. First prize went to the school in [...]
March 29th, 2012 | by admin | published in Blog, NewsBites
Sergio Palleroni was practicing socially conscious architecture long before it became mainstream in recent years, but in case you aren’t familiar with his work, here is a recent article in Architectural Record highlighting his mission and some of his latest projects. We are proud to have had Sergio as a visiting professor at last year’s [...]
March 27th, 2012 | by admin | published in Blog, Events, NewsBites
This Thursday and Friday on the 29 and 30th of March, a wide range of experts on affordable housing in developing countries will be coming together to talk in Mumbai at Homegrown Cities – Local Construction Practices in Urban India – A Conference on Affordable Housing, organized by the Sir JJ School of Architecture and [...]
March 21st, 2012 | by Nazanin Mehregan | published in Featured, Internships 2012
In this series, students document their experiences during the internships in 2012. Scattered across the globe, they are reporting from places like Haiti, South America, Africa, Mongolia and Japan. ———————————— Nazanin Mehregan reports from Haiti and her internship with Architecture for Humanity. It’s called the monkey bird, at least this is what the people from [...]
March 19th, 2012 | by admin | published in Blog, NewsBites
Architecture for Humanity has released an update on our recently completed design studio collaboration and on-site workshop near Petropolis, Brazil to create a public community and sports facility for this area heavily destroyed by last year’s floods: “As part of larger reconstruction efforts, Architecture for Humanity and the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya (UIC) in Barcelona [...]
