Building Blocks: Humanitarian Designs and Schools

East Coast Migrant Head Start Project: Child Care Centers

Sun, 16 Jan 2011 12:00:00 -0500

Each year, countless migrant laborers travel from Mexico, Honduras, Haiti and other economically challenged countries to rural areas in the Southeastern U.S. to harvest fruits and vegetables, often with children in tow.

Secondary School

Sun, 16 Jan 2011 12:00:00 -0500

In 2001, while still a student at Dano, Burkina Faso the Berlin Technical University, Diébédo Francis Kéré completed his first project: a small primary school in Gando, his native village in Burkina Faso.

Transitional Classrooms in Haiti

Sun, 16 Jan 2011 12:00:00 -0500

The massive, 7.0-magnitude earthquake that struck Haiti one year ago, on January 12, killed an estimated 230,000 people and left more than 1.5 million homeless.

Design Vanguard 2010

Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0500

In times of stress, new patterns often appear first at the edges — those places both geographic and metaphoric that are far from traditional centers of activity or thought.