Design like you give a damn : architectural responses to humanitarian crisis
Title:
Design like you give a damn : architectural responses to humanitarian crisis
Author:
Sinclair, Cameron, 1973-
ISBN:
9780500342190
Publication Information:
London : Thames & Hudson, 2006.
Physical Description:
333 pages : color illustrations ; 19 x 21 cm
General Note:
Text by Cameron Sinclair and Kate Stohr.
Contents:
100 years of humanitarian design -- Housing : Emergency : Lightweight emergency tent -- Shelter frame kit -- Grip clips -- Bold -- Global village shelters -- Burning man shelter tests -- Podville -- Hexayurt -- Unofficial strong angel training exercises -- Concrete canvas -- 139 Shelter -- Transitional : Transitional community -- Paper church, paper log houses, paper tube emergency shelter -- Super adobe -- Pallet house -- Rubble house -- Low-tech balloon system -- Extreme housing -- Prefabricated core housing, core housing -- Safe(R) house -- Housing in northern Afghanistan -- Mobile migrant worker housing, pink houses with greenhouses -- Permanent : Maasai integrated shelter project -- Lucy house, 20.0 House -- Hopi nation elder home -- Bayview rural village -- Quinta monroy housing project -- Northern Ireland cross-community initiative -- Sistema arde -- Homelessness : Huts and low-riders -- Dome village -- First step housing -- Parasite -- Community : Gathering spaces : Manson's bend chapel -- Appirampattu village center -- Barefoot college -- Homeboy industries -- Center for disabled workers -- Siyathemba soccer clinic -- Favela-Bairro projects -- Women : Rufisque women's centre -- Shelter 2 -- Health : Mobile health clinic -- Africa centre for health and population studies -- Medwed clinic -- Education : Gando primary school -- Bamboo primary school -- Druk White Lotus school -- School solar kitchen -- Hole-in-the-wall schools -- A bridge too far -- Water, energy, and sanitation : Water : Hippo water roller -- Play pump -- Ceramic water filter -- Watercone -- Moneymaker pumps -- Long-lasting antimalaria bed nets -- Aquacube -- Clean hub system -- Energy : Power shade -- Seba Dalkai school solar classroom -- Himalayan rescue association pheriche clinic -- Sanitation : VIP latrine -- Living machine -- Ecological dry toilet -- UnBathroom -- Politics, policy, and planning : Shelter project -- Sphere project -- Roots of peace -- European greenbelt -- A civilian occupation : the politics of Israeli architecture -- Sleeping bag project -- Housing for health -- Viewing platforms, stair to park -- Finding public space in the margins -- City without a ghetto -- Shrinking cities -- Urban acupuncture.
Abstract:
"The greatest humanitarian challenge we face today is that of providing shelter. Currently one in seven people lives in a slum or refugee camp, and more than three billion people-nearly half the world's population-do not have access to clean water or adequate sanitation. The physical design of our homes, neighborhoods, and communities shapes every aspect of our lives. Yet too often architects are desperately needed in the places where they can least be afforded. Edited by Architecture for Humanity, Design Like You Give a Damn is a compendium of innovative projects from around the world that demonstrate the power of design to improve lives. The first book to bring the best of humanitarian architecture and design to the printed page, Design Like You Give a Damn offers a history of the movement toward socially conscious design and showcases more than 80 contemporary solutions to such urgent needs as basic shelter, health care, education, and access to clean water, energy, and sanitation. Featured projects include some sponsored by Architecture for Humanity as well as many others undertaken independently, often against great odds. Design Like You Give a Damn is an indispensable resource for designers and humanitarian organizations charged with rebuilding after disaster and engaged in the search for sustainable development. It is also a call to action to anyone committed to building a better world."--Jacket.
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