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Table Of Contents And Prologue, Nicole Ellis, Jason Fedak, Gabe Mckee
Table Of Contents And Prologue, Nicole Ellis, Jason Fedak, Gabe Mckee
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Editorial board, Table of contents, and Prologue, an introduction to volume 28
Constructed Landscape, Michael Hughes
Constructed Landscape, Michael Hughes
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The Joy House, one of seven buildings operated by the nonprofit Providence Network, provides up to two years of temporary shelter and counseling for women and children affected by domestic violence. The client’s programmatic requirements were initially limited to pragmatic code compliance issues.
A Church In Filadelfia, Costa Rica, Jae Cha
A Church In Filadelfia, Costa Rica, Jae Cha
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This project is being built in Filadelfia, Costa Rica, a northern town near Liberia. The site is in a residential neighborhood that has “permanent” houses. In order to try to build within that context, we proposed a church building that used local concrete and wood similar to the existing houses.
Paper Tube Emergency Shelters, Shigeru Ban
Paper Tube Emergency Shelters, Shigeru Ban
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In the 1990s, ethnic violence between the Hutu and Tutsi peoples broke out in Rwanda. As a result, more than two million people became refugees. The tragedy was raised in the public consciousness by constant media attention and even became the subject of the film Hotel Rwanda.
Trailer Wrap: Re-Fabricating Manufactured Housing, Michael Hughes, Bruce Wrightsman
Trailer Wrap: Re-Fabricating Manufactured Housing, Michael Hughes, Bruce Wrightsman
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TrailerWrap is an innovative, community design/build project focused on engaging students in issues of sustainable and affordable design in the context of the trailer park. At the scale of an individual building the project explores the potential for providing affordable housing through the adaptive reuse and recycling of old, inefficient mobile homes.
Building To Learn/Learning To Build, Sergio Palleroni
Building To Learn/Learning To Build, Sergio Palleroni
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There is a crisis in the architectural profession and in architectural education. Architects are beginning to lose control over the building process. Interior designers have taken over design of the building from within, engineers have begun to offer complete building design services, and builders now incorporate design services into their repertoire.
Recycling The Margins: Re-Thinking The Role Of Architecture In Everyday Urban Places, Shannon Criss
Recycling The Margins: Re-Thinking The Role Of Architecture In Everyday Urban Places, Shannon Criss
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Architectural education can provide space for investigations and new lines of communication; this essay reveals the efforts of many students and myself to make sense of the role that architecture might play in everyday urban places. Through an encounter with a Kansas City, Kansas planner, my students and I became involved with a group of residents who recently had started the Boulevard Neighborhood Association.
Vacillations Between Discrete And Ecological Thinking: The University Of Arkansas Community Design Center, Stephen Luoni
Vacillations Between Discrete And Ecological Thinking: The University Of Arkansas Community Design Center, Stephen Luoni
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How odd is it to devote an anthology of essays to humanitarian design? Isn’t it an oxymoron given the design professions’ tacit mission to provide human habitat? After all, professions are cultures of work distinguished by their internalization of the public good in the delivery of services and products.
Present To Future, Larry Bowne, Patrick Rhodes
Present To Future, Larry Bowne, Patrick Rhodes
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This articles features a transcript of a conversation between Larry Bowne and Patrick Rhodes about humanitarian design and Rhodes’ efforts at disaster relief in New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Karina.
The Bat Signal: Exploring The Relationship Between Justice And Design, Bryan Bell
The Bat Signal: Exploring The Relationship Between Justice And Design, Bryan Bell
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SEED is a network of organizations and individuals dedicated to build and support a culture of civic responsibility and engagement in the built environment and the public realm. We promote and foster public interest architecture, urbanism, and landscapes, which are design and socially progressive, celebrating the idea that design matters and all people can shape their world.
House Of Dance And Feathers
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An article about a group of K-State architecture students led by professors Patrick Rhodes and Larry Bowne who traveled to New Orleans to construct a house for Ronald Lewis and Mardi Gras Indian who maintained a private museum in his back yard known as the House of Dance and Feathers.
Architecture Held Suspect: Notes On Design And Collaboration, Dan Pitera
Architecture Held Suspect: Notes On Design And Collaboration, Dan Pitera
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We work under the premise that to fabricate architectural, landscape, or urban insertions, interpretations, and alterations is an activist endeavor that is often ignored or unconsciously pursued. Design supports or disrupts the actions of individuals and the actions of the institutions that culture has formed.
Free Shelter
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Mad Housers was an all-volunteer group in Atlanta that worked to create alternative housing options for the homeless and under-housed populations.
Onward And Upward: Affording A Future, Byron Mouton
Onward And Upward: Affording A Future, Byron Mouton
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I have lived in New Orleans all my life; the only exception being six years of study in the Northeast and abroad. A descendant of a large family with more than a century of heritage in the region, I am ingrained in a local condition where generation upon generation is rooted in the same place—a circumstance unfamiliar to most Americans, and many American cities. Ed. note: Byron Mouton with Cordula Roser and Julie Charvat.
Contributors
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Biographical information on contributors to volume 28, and a list of benefactors and donors