(Architecture for Humanity) Land title and land tenure. Believe it or not, it’s this battle that’s dictating the pace of reconstruction in Haiti–and the issue is hairy. I mean, technical. Architecture for Humanity Design Fellow Frederique “Rickie” Siegel fell into a working group last year bent on addressing the bottleneck on permanent development throughout the…
(Architecture for Humanity) On August 7, the Association of Defense Communities Annual Conference in Monterey was buzzing with conversation and questions about future phases of the federal Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC). Dozens of American military bases hang on a determination from Congress whether or not to shut down–decisions that will affect the lives of…
(Architecture for Humanity) If there’s a “typical” design fellow, Preeti Sodhi may be the farthest from it. While many of our fellows are out working in rural communities in strange sounding places across the world, Preeti wakes up each morning in New York City and often heads down to the (very) Lower East Side. She’s…
(Students Rebuild) This week (the morning of Tuesday, July 17, in Japan, or 4PM Monday in San Francisco), the Kitakami “We Are One” Market and Youth Center broke ground. Participating in the ceremony were very honorable owner of the Market, Naomi Sato, the market’s architect Fumihiko Sasaki, two Shinto priests, several local contractors and members…
(Architecture for Humanity) For her Mundus Urbano masters program in Barcelona, Nazanin Mehregan spent three months studying and working on Architecture for Humanity’s urban design projects in Port-au-Prince. Specifically Nazanin worked with the Villa Rosa community engagement team on an ambitious community-led urban redevelopment program. Now back in Spain with some free time on her…
(Architecture for Humanity) The FastCompany Co.EXIST blog reminded us recently of Bill Gates’ Toilet Challenge: $42 Million in funding for the invention of a new toilet. Their point is that toilets need to be re-thought to overcome a heavy reliance on water and dismissal of human waste as an agricultural and economic resource. In Haiti,…
(Architecture for Humanity) There’s a book on my desk called Up and Down California in 1860-1864. It’s about the first land surveys of the West Coast of America, through a (long) series of weekly letters from one of the expedition’s crew to his brother in New York. This was back in the heyday of pioneering,…
How École Baptiste Bon Berger, Pele, had recently finished demolition on their defunct classroom block, clearing the way for new construction
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