It is Week 2 of the new academic year and our students have moved on to the three-week Humanitarian Shelter and Settlements course. It started off with Post-Disaster Planning from…
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In this new part of our alumni interview series, we talked to Carolina Collignon, who completed our master in 2017 and went back to her home country Mexico after two…
Today as we move into a new decade, we reflect on how the global events in the past ten years have shaped our Master program. The essence of our program…
We recently caught up with former student Carolina Collignon (1987), an architect from Guadalajara, Mexico who completed our program in 2017. Since graduating, Carolina has been applying her knowledge of…
“Earthquakes don’t kill people, buildings do.” It’s become the go-to adage among post-disaster reconstruction experts who cite poor construction as the man-made cause of fatalities in the event of such…
Sonam leadding the Trek for Rebuilding to aid remote communities affected by the earthquake Former student Sonam Lama has been hard at work since the first of two devasting earthquakes…
Post-disaster reconstruction specialist Marie Aquilino, one of our professors and guest lecturers, has just released a free online book about her experience over the last several years working as an…
Iranian architecture firm Rai Studio recently completed a series of adobe housing prototypes in Kerman intended for Afghan refugees and communities affected by last year’s major earthquake in East Azerbaijan,…
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…
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. ————————————…