Our series of open lectures kicks off this season this Friday May 25th at 19:00 with Joseph Aranha, architect and professor of architecture at Texas Tech University, with a talk…
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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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
In a recent report from UN-Habitat, the organization announced that it is expanding its ties with the academic world in the area of urban risk reduction and rehabilitation so that…
Our students Ella Chau, Wan-Ting Chiang, John Holm, and Tommaso Sacconi are currently in Nagaoka, Japan for their internship with architect and earthquake disaster prevention expert Norio Maki, guest professor…