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…
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…
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…
Role of Planning and Design in Turning a Culturally Divided City into an Inclusive Cosmopolis: Analyzing the Post-War Reconstruction in Beirut by George Kassab | Supervisor: Claire Colomb, PhD Civil…