For those working on reconstruction in Haiti, researching buildings for aid or simply studying vernacular architecture, here is a great resource created by the building designer and landscape architect Patti…
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Right on the heels of the $300 House initiative, the Indian company that brought us the world’s cheapest car has unveiled its design for a $720 flatpack home for India’s…
Don’t miss this wonderfully entertaining and knowledge-filled talk with the always endearing Francis Kéré at this years Design Indaba Conference which took place in February. In it, he talks about…
We came across an interesting project featured in this month’s edition of Domus Magazine: an Emergency Pediatric Clinic in Darfur by Italian architects Tamassociati for the Italian nonprofit Emergency NGO….
Though there doesn’t seem to be much on-the-ground coverage from Haiti’s Building Back Better Communities Expo that took place last week and which we covered in our last post, we…
Bangkok isn’t the only citiy threatened by climate change, and it’s sinking. Le Monde reports that Niramon Kulsrisombat, a town planner and teacher at the architecture department of the prestigious…
It’s been a year and a half since the poorest country in the Western hemisphere was levelled by the 7.0 earthquake that killed over 300,000 people and left at least…
Don’t miss this valuable series of talks by sustainability and post-disaster rebuilding experts that took place last year at swissnex San Francisco as part of the U.S.-wide program ThinkSwiss-Brainstorm the…
We are excited to hear that Sergio Palleroni, Portland State University professor and one of our own visiting professors, has played a leading role in a new partnership between PSU…
El mes pasado recordarán que colgamos la entrevista que La Vanguardia hizo a Cameron Sinclair, cofundador de Architecture for Humanity, durante su estancia en Barcelona como profesor invitado de nuestro…