{"product_id":"humanitarian-architecture","title":"Humanitarian Architecture","description":"\u003cp\u003eNever has the demand been so urgent for architects to respond to the design and planning challenges of rebuilding post-disaster sites and cities. In 2011, more people were displaced by natural disasters (42 million) than by wars and armed conflicts. And yet the number of architects equipped to deal with rebuilding the aftermath of these floods, fires, earthquake, typhoons and tsunamis is chronically short. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book documents and analyses the expanding role for architects in designing projects for communities after the event of a natural disaster. The fifteen case studies featured in the body of the book illustrate how architects can use spatial sensibility and integrated problem-solving skills to help alleviate both human and natural disasters. The cases include:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLizzie Babister - Department of International Development, UK.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eShigeru Ban - Winner of The Pritzker Architecture Prize 2014, Shigeru Ban Architects and Voluntary Architects’ Network, Japan.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEric Cesal – Disaster Reconstruction and Resiliency Studio and Architecture for Humanity, Japan.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHsieh Ying Chun – Atelier 3, Taiwan.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNathaniel Corum - Education Outreach and Architecture for Humanity, USA.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSandra D’Urzo - Shelter and Settlements and International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Switzerland.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBrett Moore - World Vision International, Australia.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMichael Murphy - MASS Design Group, USA.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDavid Perkes - Gulf Coast Community Design Studio, USA.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePaul Pholeros - Healthabitat, Australia.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePatama Roonrakwit - Community Architects for Shelter and Environment, Thailand.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGraham Saunders - International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Switzerland.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKirtee Shah - Ahmedabad Study Action Group, India.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMaggie Stephenson - UN-HABITAT, Haiti.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnna Wachtmeister - Catholic Organisation for Relief and Redevelopment Aid, the Netherlands.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe interviews and supporting essays show built environment professionals collaborating with post-disaster communities as facilitators, collaborators and negotiators of land, space and shelter, rather than as ‘save the world’ modernists, as often portrayed in the design media. The goal is social and physical reconstruction, as a collaborative process involving a damaged community and its local culture, environment and economy; not just shelter ‘projects’ that ‘build’ houses but leave no economic footprint or longer-term community infrastructure. What defines and unites the architects interviewed for \u003ci\u003eHumanitarian Architecture\u003c\/i\u003e is their collective belief that through a consultative process of spatial problem solving, the design profession can contribute in a significant way to the complex post-disaster challenge of rebuilding a city and its community.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54252255871320,"sku":"9780415818667","price":248.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780415818667_564b61a1-8822-432a-8cb4-6173769af05f.jpg?v=1777093243","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/humanitarian-architecture","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}