Last month we featured one of our previous students, Nerea Amorós and her work in Rwanda teaching the country’s first generation of architecture students at the Kigali Institute of Science…
We are excited to introduce our latest guest professor, urban designer Dr. Reena Tiwari, Associate Professor in the Departments of Urban & Regional Planning and Architecture at Curtin University of…
Economy is one of the three pillars of sustainability in addition to ecology and society, and as such forms a crucial part of any development project regardless of its nature….
Our 2011-12 course kicked off last week with guest professor and urban designer Jean-Michel Roux from the Institute of Town Planning in Grenoble, who’s approach to our theme “Urban Regeneration”…
The Curry Stone Foundation has awarded this year’s $100,000 prize to Taiwanese architect Hsieh Ying-Chun, who for over a decade has worked in rural areas affected by natural disaster. Hsieh…
The nonprofit housing organization Habitat for Humanity International has just released its “Shelter Report 2012 – Build Hope: Housing Cities after a Disaster,” which highlights the urgent need for safer…
The World Architecture Festival that takes place in Barcelona every fall has announced today that the major themes for this year’s edition will focus on “making a difference” and “responding…
The September issue of Architect Magazine has devoted its pages to the practice of emergency architecture through a series of articles, interviews and infographics that highlights different approaches to disaster…
For those who were disheartened at the news of Worldchanging’s closure late last year, fear not, Worldchanging is coming back better. The architectural nonprofit Architecture for Humanity (which we’ve talked…
You may already be familiar with TYIN Tegnestue, the nonprofit architecture practice that works with architecture students from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), on humanitarian and sustainable…