As Super Typhoon Haiyan was bearing down on the Philippines last week, across the Pacific in San Francisco, the Curry Stone Foundation announced the winners of this year's Curry Stone Design Prize. Now in its sixth year, the award honors architects and designers who devise innovative, often low-tech responses to help strengthen communities faced with natural disaster, political upheaval, or a poverty of resources.
At an awards ceremony at the Contemporary Jewish Museum on November 7, prize secretary Emiliano Gandolfi praised the three 2013 winners for zeroing in on local issues. "We're not looking for a solution that will address all the different problems," said Gandolfi, an architect and cofounder of the design cooperative Cohabitation Strategies in Rotterdam. "We're trying to learn from local conditions and look for designers who understand how to develop small ideas that are implemented locally."
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