Titel: Design Like You Give A Damn: Architectural Responses To Humanitarian Crises
Verlag: US Green Building Council
Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 1933045256
ISBN-13: 9781933045252
Einband: Paperback
Zustand: Good
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket

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The greatest humanitarian challenge we face today is that of providing shelter. The physical design of our homes, neighborhoods and communities shapes every aspect of our live, yet where architects are most desperately needed, they can least be afforded. Design Like You Give a Damn is a compendium of innovative projects from around the world that demonstrate the power of design to improve lives. It offers a history of the movement toward socially conscious design, and showcases more than 80 contemporary solutions to such urgent needs as basic shelter, healthcare, education and access to clean water, energy and sanitation.

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If you care about the future we're building, you ought to own a copy of Design Like You Give a Damn

Design Like You Give A Damn screams its message in its title. Good design is not a luxury, but a necessity.

A book that is lovely in every sense of the word.. ...makes clear just how much talent is currently going to waste designing McMansions.

This book brings forth the values of sustainability and diversity in a beautiful way-values which are as essential to our housing as they are to food we eat.

...a 336-page love letter to architects worldwide who provide pro-bono design services to communities that have survived war, government oppression and natural disasters. It's also an antidote to apathy.

Design like you give a Damn is truly an important work-its lesson is that architecture and design are not about being on the cover of last week's New York Times Magazine but about making a difference in people's lives.

Heavy on context and images, light on celebrity names, Design Like You Give a Damn is a bracing reminder that there's more to architecture than museums and posh private homes. Instead, the founders of the group Architecture for Humanity round up 77 nimble solutions to real-life problems: There are fiberglass domes for the homeless of Los Angeles, a schoolhouse in Burkina Faso with an arced steel roof that insulates the clay brick classrooms below -- even a water pump in South Africa that is powered by children playing on a merry-go-round. Truly inspirational.

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