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Design like you give a damn. [2], Building change from the ground up / edited by Architecture for Humanity.

Contributor(s): Publication details: New York ; London : Abrams, 2012.Description: 334 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps (chiefly col.) ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780810997028 (pbk.)
  • 0810997029 (pbk.)
Other title:
  • Building change from the ground up
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 728.1/086/91 23
LOC classification:
  • HV554.5 .D47 2012
Contents:
Introduction : Architecture for Humanity: lessons learned / Cameron Sinclair -- Financing sustainable community development / Kate Stohr -- Disaster reconstruction : Bamboo shelter, Iran / Pouya Khazaeli Parsa ; Soe Ker Tie Hias (butterfly houses), Thailand / TYIN Tegnestue ; Transitional to what? Haiti / Architecture for Humanity ; Katrina cottage, United States / Marianne Cusato ; Ma'erkang steel frame housing, China / Rural Architecture Studio ; LIFT house, Bangladesh / Prithula Prosun ; Alluvial sponge comb, United States / Anderson Anderson Architecture ; Make it right, United States / Make It Right Foundation ; Biloxi model home program, United States / Architecture for Humanity ; DeLisle community center, United States / SHoP Architects with Parsons Design Workshop ; Rector Street bridge, United States / SHoP Architects ; What if New York City... / New York City Office of Emergency Management with Architecture for Humanity -- Housing : Overview of green rating systems ; enviRenew, United States / Salvation Army of New Orleans ; New house project, Canada / Work Worth Doing ; Tour Bois-le-Pretre, France / FreÌdeÌric Druot Architecture ; Life in 1.5 x 30, Bangladesh / Architecture for Humanity, Dhaka ; Venezuelan eco-cabanas / Kristofer Nonn ; 100K house, United States / Postgreen Homes ; Superuse harvest map, Netherlands / 2012Architecten ; Diez Casas para Diez familias (10x10), Mexico / School of Architecture at Instituto Technologico y de Estudios Superiores ; 10x10 housing initiative, South Africa / Design Indaba ; Tassafaronga village, United States / David Baker + Partners Architects : Interview: David Baker, Daniel Simons, Bridget Galka ; Solar decathlon, United States / US Department of Energy ; Galisteo basin preserve, United States / Commonweal Conservancy ; Western harbour B001 development, Sweden / City of MalmoÌ Planning Office -- Community : Gathering spaces : Marsupial bridge & media garden, United States / La Dallman Architects ; Tiuna el Fuerte cultural park, Venezuela / Lab.Pro.Fab ; High line, United States / diller scofidio + renfro, James Corner Field Operations ; Centre pour le Bien-eÌtre des Femmes (CBF), Burkina Faso / FAREstudio ; SOS Children's Villages Lavezzorio Community Center, United States / Studio Gang Architects -- Education : Fuji kindergarten, Japan / Tezuka Architects ; Green School Bali, Indonesia / Area Designs, PT Bambu ; Olifantsvlei primary school, South Africa / Institute of Experimental Architecture ./Studio3, University of Innsbruck ; Bridge school, China / Li Xiaodong Atelier ; Hazelwood School for Children and Young People with Sensory Impairment, United States / Alan Dunlop Architect --
Health : Maggie's Cancer Caring Centres, United Kingdom, Hong Kong, China, Taiwan / Maggie's Cancer Caring Centres ; Friends Center at Angkor Hospital for Children, Cambodia / Cook + Fox Architects ; Pebble project, United States / The Center for Heath Design -- Sports for social change : Mahiga Hope High School Rainwater Court, Kenya / Architecture for Humanity ; Skateistan, Afghanistan / Convic Designs, IOU Ramps ; Gimnasio Vertical, Venezuela / Urban-Think Tank -- Sacred spaces & memorials : Chapel of San Isidro Labrador, Mexico / Luis Cabral, Joao Caeiro, Fulvio Capurso ; La Ruta del Peregrino, Mexico / (various design and architecture firms) ; Anti-Memorial to Heroin Overdose Victims, Australia / SueAnne Ware ; Estadio Nacional, Memoria Nacional, Chile / Regional Metropolitano de ex Presas y Presos Politicos -- Basic services & materials : Emergency water bladder, Haiti / Structure-flex ; Rainwater HOG, United States / Sally and Simon Dominguez ; Sundolier, United States / Sunflower Corporation ; Ceramic pillars, Spain / Mangado y Asociados SL ; Ecological concrete additives / EcoCreto, Hycrete, TX Active ; Papercrete, Taiwan / John Lamorie, Shelly Wu ; Plastiki rPET, United States / Andrew Dovell with Nathaniel Corum, Jason Iftakhar, Michael Jones, Mike O'Reilly, Michael Pawlyn, Greg Pronko -- Politics, policy & planning : Arts & culture : Favela painting project, Brazil / Haas&Hahn ; Faces of favelas / JR ; L.A.S.E.R. tag / Graffiti Research Lab ; Cool biz, Japan / Ministry of the Environment of Japan ; Greywater Action, United States / Greywater Action -- Community development : In-situ slum rehabilitation, India / The Society for the Promotion of Area Resource Centres, National Slum Dwellers Federation ; Brick city: Mayor Cory Booker, United States / Benjamin Productions : Transcript: Brick City ; Transition network / Naresh Giangrande, Rob Hopkins ; Green light for midtown, United States / New York City Department of Transportation ; Walking school bus / David Engwicht -- Crowd-sourced planning : Let's do it!, Estonia / Rainer NoÌlvak, Toomas Trapido ; Light pollution / International Dark-Sky Association ; Crowd-sourced mapping / FrontineSMS, OpenStreetMap, Ushahidi -- Access to food : Food deserts, United States / Mari Gallagher ; Smarter lunchrooms, United States / Cornell Food and Brand Lab ; Svalbard Global Seed Vault, Norway / Global Diversity Crop Trust -- Peace & security : Violence prevention through urban upgrading, South Africa / City of Cape Town, AHT Group, Sun Development Pty. Ltd. ; Red Hook Community Justice Center, United States / Center for Court Innovation ; Trau Kod Dam, Cambodia / Engineers Without Borders, Human Translation ; Proyecto urbano integral, Colombia / Empresa de Desarrollo Urbano de Medelin -- Project updates.
Summary: With the rise in social demand for recycling programs and sustainable living, this volume documents more than 100 new projects from around the world. It is packed with practical and ingenious design solutions that address the need for basic shelter, housing, education, health care, clean water and renewable energy.

With the rise in social demand for recycling programs and sustainable living, this volume documents more than 100 new projects from around the world. It is packed with practical and ingenious design solutions that address the need for basic shelter, housing, education, health care, clean water and renewable energy.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 326-328).

Introduction : Architecture for Humanity: lessons learned / Cameron Sinclair -- Financing sustainable community development / Kate Stohr -- Disaster reconstruction : Bamboo shelter, Iran / Pouya Khazaeli Parsa ; Soe Ker Tie Hias (butterfly houses), Thailand / TYIN Tegnestue ; Transitional to what? Haiti / Architecture for Humanity ; Katrina cottage, United States / Marianne Cusato ; Ma'erkang steel frame housing, China / Rural Architecture Studio ; LIFT house, Bangladesh / Prithula Prosun ; Alluvial sponge comb, United States / Anderson Anderson Architecture ; Make it right, United States / Make It Right Foundation ; Biloxi model home program, United States / Architecture for Humanity ; DeLisle community center, United States / SHoP Architects with Parsons Design Workshop ; Rector Street bridge, United States / SHoP Architects ; What if New York City... / New York City Office of Emergency Management with Architecture for Humanity -- Housing : Overview of green rating systems ; enviRenew, United States / Salvation Army of New Orleans ; New house project, Canada / Work Worth Doing ; Tour Bois-le-Pretre, France / FreÌdeÌric Druot Architecture ; Life in 1.5 x 30, Bangladesh / Architecture for Humanity, Dhaka ; Venezuelan eco-cabanas / Kristofer Nonn ; 100K house, United States / Postgreen Homes ; Superuse harvest map, Netherlands / 2012Architecten ; Diez Casas para Diez familias (10x10), Mexico / School of Architecture at Instituto Technologico y de Estudios Superiores ; 10x10 housing initiative, South Africa / Design Indaba ; Tassafaronga village, United States / David Baker + Partners Architects : Interview: David Baker, Daniel Simons, Bridget Galka ; Solar decathlon, United States / US Department of Energy ; Galisteo basin preserve, United States / Commonweal Conservancy ; Western harbour B001 development, Sweden / City of MalmoÌ Planning Office -- Community : Gathering spaces : Marsupial bridge & media garden, United States / La Dallman Architects ; Tiuna el Fuerte cultural park, Venezuela / Lab.Pro.Fab ; High line, United States / diller scofidio + renfro, James Corner Field Operations ; Centre pour le Bien-eÌtre des Femmes (CBF), Burkina Faso / FAREstudio ; SOS Children's Villages Lavezzorio Community Center, United States / Studio Gang Architects -- Education : Fuji kindergarten, Japan / Tezuka Architects ; Green School Bali, Indonesia / Area Designs, PT Bambu ; Olifantsvlei primary school, South Africa / Institute of Experimental Architecture ./Studio3, University of Innsbruck ; Bridge school, China / Li Xiaodong Atelier ; Hazelwood School for Children and Young People with Sensory Impairment, United States / Alan Dunlop Architect --

Health : Maggie's Cancer Caring Centres, United Kingdom, Hong Kong, China, Taiwan / Maggie's Cancer Caring Centres ; Friends Center at Angkor Hospital for Children, Cambodia / Cook + Fox Architects ; Pebble project, United States / The Center for Heath Design -- Sports for social change : Mahiga Hope High School Rainwater Court, Kenya / Architecture for Humanity ; Skateistan, Afghanistan / Convic Designs, IOU Ramps ; Gimnasio Vertical, Venezuela / Urban-Think Tank -- Sacred spaces & memorials : Chapel of San Isidro Labrador, Mexico / Luis Cabral, Joao Caeiro, Fulvio Capurso ; La Ruta del Peregrino, Mexico / (various design and architecture firms) ; Anti-Memorial to Heroin Overdose Victims, Australia / SueAnne Ware ; Estadio Nacional, Memoria Nacional, Chile / Regional Metropolitano de ex Presas y Presos Politicos -- Basic services & materials : Emergency water bladder, Haiti / Structure-flex ; Rainwater HOG, United States / Sally and Simon Dominguez ; Sundolier, United States / Sunflower Corporation ; Ceramic pillars, Spain / Mangado y Asociados SL ; Ecological concrete additives / EcoCreto, Hycrete, TX Active ; Papercrete, Taiwan / John Lamorie, Shelly Wu ; Plastiki rPET, United States / Andrew Dovell with Nathaniel Corum, Jason Iftakhar, Michael Jones, Mike O'Reilly, Michael Pawlyn, Greg Pronko -- Politics, policy & planning : Arts & culture : Favela painting project, Brazil / Haas&Hahn ; Faces of favelas / JR ; L.A.S.E.R. tag / Graffiti Research Lab ; Cool biz, Japan / Ministry of the Environment of Japan ; Greywater Action, United States / Greywater Action -- Community development : In-situ slum rehabilitation, India / The Society for the Promotion of Area Resource Centres, National Slum Dwellers Federation ; Brick city: Mayor Cory Booker, United States / Benjamin Productions : Transcript: Brick City ; Transition network / Naresh Giangrande, Rob Hopkins ; Green light for midtown, United States / New York City Department of Transportation ; Walking school bus / David Engwicht -- Crowd-sourced planning : Let's do it!, Estonia / Rainer NoÌlvak, Toomas Trapido ; Light pollution / International Dark-Sky Association ; Crowd-sourced mapping / FrontineSMS, OpenStreetMap, Ushahidi -- Access to food : Food deserts, United States / Mari Gallagher ; Smarter lunchrooms, United States / Cornell Food and Brand Lab ; Svalbard Global Seed Vault, Norway / Global Diversity Crop Trust -- Peace & security : Violence prevention through urban upgrading, South Africa / City of Cape Town, AHT Group, Sun Development Pty. Ltd. ; Red Hook Community Justice Center, United States / Center for Court Innovation ; Trau Kod Dam, Cambodia / Engineers Without Borders, Human Translation ; Proyecto urbano integral, Colombia / Empresa de Desarrollo Urbano de Medelin -- Project updates.

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