Tag: Architecture For Humanity

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  Elizabeth Kolbert on Climate Denier Politicians and Why Extreme Weather is the New Norm (Podcast)

  The New Yorker's Elizabeth Kolbert on global warming science and Republican climate denial.

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  Is Volunteer Work In Architecture an "Easy Option"? One Starchitect Says Yes, Cameron Sinclair Says "Wot?"

  Farshid Moussavi says "not really good" students are using it as " an excuse and an easy option."

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  2011 Curry Stone Design Prize Winners Announced

  The Curry Stone Design Prize was created to champion designers as a force for social change. Founded by architect Clifford Curry and Archaeologist/acitivist Delight Stone, it " recognizes innovators who address critical issues

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  Worldchanging Acquired By Architecture For Humanity, To Become Tool For Worldchanging Solutions

  Worldchanging co-founder Alex Steffen has said that the "last decade was about imagining the solutions that could help us meet big planetary problems. This decade will be all about putting those solutions to work."

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  Turning Wartime T-Walls into Iraqi Affordable Housing

  At a Pecha Kucha session during this summer's Dwell on Design conference, I was inspired by a series of seven 7-minute presentations proposed on the theme of

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  Riot Rebuild: Architects and Construction Professionals Rally To Rebuild

  One often hears the old line "Is there a doctor in the house", but rarely do you hear the same request for an architect. Cameron and Kate raised the profile of the profession around the word with Architecture for Humanity, but back on his home turf,

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  eCORRE Complex Made From Two Memes Of The Moment: Shipping Containers and Green Roofs

  I am late to the party on this one, already seen on Inhabitat and Gizmag, because it has taken me some time to figure out how it actually works. It's called the eCORRE, for Environmental Center

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  Daiwa's Post-Apocalyptic Expanding Container House Is Coming To America (Video)

  TreeHugger first showed the Daiwa EDV-1, the amazing robotic shipping container instant house, back in January. Now the prototype is coming Stateside (no doubt carried by supersonic helicopters) in July for Little Tokyo Design Week in Los Angeles. The

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  Beyond LEED to Net Zero Energy: RFK Jr., Suzuki and Sinclair's Keynotes at Sustainability Summit

  A solar-powered health clinic traveling on a camel. Windmills on Bangladesh tut-tuts recharges cell phones. Military bases converted to civic spaces. A

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  Molo's Heartfelt Lantern Supports Architecture For Humanity In Japan

  Molo Studio has been a fixture on TreeHugger since we started; the Vancouver based team continues to turn out products that "grow from [Stephanie] Forsythe and [Todd] MacAllen's architectural explorations." One of the

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  The EDV-1 From Daiwa: The Ultimate Post-Apocalyptic Expanding Container House

  Images Credit Daiwa Cameron Sinclair is so going to want 10,000 of these amazing robotic shipping container sized instant houses. EDV stands for Emergency Disaster Vehicles, but it is really a pushbutton house that leaves Adam Kalkin in its wake. It is

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  Architecture For Humanity's Really Boring Year in Haiti

  Kate Stohr, the co-founder of Architecture for Humanity, dropped me a note suggesting that I have a look at their Year in Review of their work in Haiti. I did, and couldn't help but come to the conclusion that it was really boring.. I mean really,

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  Cameron Sinclair and Architecture for Humanity Makes Play for Worldchanging

  Cameron Sinclair, co-founder of Architecture for Humanity, has been writing for Worldchanging since 2004. Since then, AFH has grown like mad, building the Open Architecture Network with

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  Humanitarian Design Isn't The New Imperialism, It's The New Compassion

  A few weeks ago, Bruce Nussbaum started a firestorm of controversy with his post in Fast Company: Is Humanitarian Design the New Imperialism? In it, he asked,

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  "Emerging Ghana" Wins Open Source House Competition for Local, Modular, and Efficient Design

  Last year, Enviu, known for the sustainable dance floor and club, launched the Open Source House project, a platform to share much needed sustainable and affordable housing solutions. The goal of their first competition, in which 3100 architects

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  Architecture For Humanity Project Funded by Kid's Hot Chocolate Sales is Shortlisted for The Aga Khan Award

  Congratulations are due today to Architecture For Humanity and their Design Fellow Susi Platt whose Yodakandiya Project in Sri Lanka has been shortlisted for the prestigious Aga Khan Award for Architecture.

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  After Earthquakes: Top Down Solutions or Bottom Up?

  TreeHugger didn't show many of the proposals for housing in Haiti, like Andrés Duany's proposals for a flatpack design (here in Jetson Green); We have spent too much time with Cameron Sinclair, who says "Top down solutions will

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  Core77 Design Contest Winners Tend To Tents

  The results of Core77's One hour design challenge are in, and I am pleased to note that I called it, picking the Lifetent for our earlier post. I was really hoping that none of the many container versions would make it into the finals; as Cameron