Once torn by war, Rwanda has made great strides in recent years, but poverty persists. For a remote region that had no doctors, a new hospital is providing vital services—and hope.
New Orleans Six years after Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans, the Lower Ninth Ward is finally starting to look like a community again'thanks in large part to the ambitious work of Make It Right. Photo ' Megan Grant In late 2007, 150 temporary pink structures marked the sites for the yet unbuilt Make It Right homes. Individuals and businesses adopted the pink installations to raise money for the foundation’s rebuilding effort. View Make It Right Projects Adjaye Associates » Constructs » Eskew+Dumez+Ripple » Related Link: Getting it Right » In December 2007, 150 life-sized fuchsia structures occupied the Lower Ninth
New Orleans Photo ' Mario Tama /Getty Images Children playing football near their new home in August 2010. One of MIR's first projects was to partner with sustainable design firm BNIM, Kellogg's Corporate Citizenship Fund, PlayGreen Initiative, and KOMPAN, Inc. for an eco-playground a few blocks away from this street. View Make It Right Projects Adjaye Associates » Constructs » Eskew+Dumez+Ripple » Related Link: Getting it Right » GETTING IT RIGHT Though many of the primary design recommendations were modified or cut to keep costs down or answer client needs, the MIR team struggled to stay true to the
At a time when high-flying architects were mesmerizing the design world with extravagant buildings, Cameron Sinclair took a decidedly different approach.
Like the village wise man, Hashim Sarkis has a knack for making the counterintuitive intuitive, which accounts for some of his success meeting the needs of his buildings’ users—among them farmers, fishermen, and child workers—who often depend less on formal education than on their keen observation, close relationship to the environment, and common sense in their daily lives.
Brillembourg, who was born in New York but has family ties to Caracas, and Klumpner, who grew up in Austria, both studied architecture at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation in New York City.
Bruce Sterling considers the one small voice of socially responsible architecture — and the nefariousness overwhelming it. Do-good architecture is the noble aspiration to better the shelter of mankind. Today it gets a louder hearing than usual, because the housing situation is a shambles. By 2040, a third of mankind will live in slums. Not just the poor; a third of everybody. That’s the motivating fear—the growing dread that the political and economic systems we’ve built do us active harm. There was the major trauma of Katrina, of course. Historic New Orleans collapsed, becoming a sudden sister city to the
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