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…
Nerea, top left, at the final review of 3rd year design studio, student housing project for KIST campus Last week we caught up with one of last year’s students who…
The prestigious bi-annual INDEX: Award has announced the five winners of the world’s largest monetary prize in design, one of which–in the “Home” category–is architect Alejandro Aravena’s ELEMENTAL Monterrey project,…
Originally featured in Metropolis back in January, and their first major project receiving wide acclaim, MASS Design Group is a (pending) not-for-profit design firm founded by six students at Harvard’s…
The field of development-oriented architecture and design is a young yet booming area of practice, fueled by an increasing awareness of global problems and the drive to solve them through…
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