Tag: Cameron Sinclair

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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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  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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  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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  Cameron Sinclair Spearheads Japan Disaster Relief From SXSW Via Twitter & iPhone

  This afternoon from the stage at South by Southwest, Architecture for Humanity's Cameron Sinclair will announce a $75,000 commitment from donors to rebuilding

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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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  "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

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  Are Shipping Containers An Answer For Haiti Housing?

  The Clemson University School of Architecture is having a moment of fame with their SEED project, where they turn shipping containers into housing. In the wake of the Haiti disaster, Professor Doug Hecker tout the virtues of the magic box in

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  Architecture For Humanity's Plan For Haiti; Cameron Sinclair Says "Steal This Plan"

  Cameron Sinclair isn't parachuting architects into Haiti. He is not making ridiculous promises. He writes: "When we are rebuilding, do not let the media set the time line and expectations for

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  The 3Rs for Haiti: Response, Recovery and Reconstruction

  TreeHugger is full of ingenious ideas for rapidly deployable designs that can be shipped, dropped or inflated to house the homeless after disasters. One might think that an organization called

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  Architecture for Humanity: 1 Year, 9 Completed Projects (Slideshow)

  When Warren first wrote about Architecture for Humanity in TreeHugger five years ago, they were already five years old but were still a small, little-known org run out of a borrowed office in Sausalito. But Kate Stohr and Cameron

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  Curry Stone Design Prize Finalists Announced, Include TreeHugger Fave Rob Hopkins

  Designers can be an instrumental force in improving people's lives, and the Curry Stone Prize is given architects who do the kind of work that normally would not make the conventional design scene, but that can have huge impact. (Last year

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  Teton Valley Community School Wins Open Architecture Challenge

  Back in June we covered the selection of finalists in the Open Architecture Challenge to design the classroom of the future. Cameron Sinclair writes: This morning, an hour before the President takes the stage, a small independent non-profit school in