Children in New Delhi, India, participate in a game led by Magic Bus, an organization that will develop sports infrastructure with Architecture for Humanity and funding from Nike Gamechangers to promote physical fitness, community integration and welfare for marginalized youth.
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Architecture for Humanity Design Fellow Greg Elsner stands with community members and students of Mahiga, Kenya, in front of the Mahiga Hope High School Rainwater Court (), which collects rainwater for the high school. The building was designed by Dick Clark Architecture with Architecture for Humanity Design Fellow Greg Elsner.
Photo: George Abrahams/Nobelity Project
CONTENTS
Cameron Sinclair
Kate Stohr
Pouya Khazaeli Parsa
IRAN
TYIN Tegnestue
THAILAND
Architecture for Humanity
HAITI
Marianne Cusato
UNITED STATES
Rural Architecture Studio
CHINA
Prithula Prosun
BANGLADESH
Anderson Anderson Architecture
UNITED STATES
Make It Right Foundation
UNITED STATES
Architecture for Humanity
UNITED STATES
SHoP Architects with Parsons Design Workshop
UNITED STATES
SHoP Architects
UNITED STATES
New York City Office of Emergency Management with Architecture for HumanityNew York
UNITED STATES
Salvation Army of New Orleans
UNITED STATES
Work Worth Doing
CANADA
Frdric Druot Architecture
FRANCE
Architecture for HumanityDhaka
BANGLADESH
Kristofer Nonn
VENEZUELA
Postgreen Homes
UNITED STATES
2012Architecten
NETHERLANDS
School of Architecture at Instituto Technologico y de Estudios Superiores
MEXICO
Design Indaba
SOUTH AFRICA
David Baker + Partners Architects
UNITED STATES
US Department of Energy
UNITED STATES
Commonweal Conservancy
UNITED STATES
City of Malm Planning Office
SWEDEN
GATHERING SPACES
La Dallman Architects
UNITED STATES
Lab.Pro.Fab
VENEZUELA
diller scofidio + renfro, James Corner Field Operations
UNITED STATES
FAREstudio
BURKINA FASO
Studio Gang Architects
UNITED STATES
EDUCATION
Tezuka Architects
JAPAN
Area Designs, PT Bambu
INDONESIA
Institute of Experimental Architecture, ./Studio3 University of Innsbruck
SOUTH AFRICA
Li Xiaodong Atelier
CHINA
Alan Dunlop Architect
UNITED KINGDOM
HEALTH
Maggies Cancer Caring Centres
UNITED KINGDOM, HONG KONG, CHINA, TAIWAN
Cook + Fox Architects
CAMBODIA
The Center for Health Design
UNITED STATES
SPORTS FOR SOCIAL CHANGE
Architecture for Humanity
KENYA
Convic Designs, IOU Ramps
AFGHANISTAN
UrbanThink Tank
VENEZUELA
SACRED SPACES & MEMORIALS
Luis Cabral, Joao Caeiro, Fulvio Capurso
MEXICO
(various design and architecture firms)
MEXICO
SueAnne Ware AUSTRALIA
Regional Metropolitano de ex Presas y Presos Polticos
CHILE
Structureflex
HAITI
Sally and Simon Dominguez
UNITED STATES
Sunflower Corporation
UNITED STATES
Mangado y Asociados
SL SPAIN
EcoCreto, Hycrete, TX Active
VARIOUS
John Lamorie, Shelly Wu
TAIWAN
Andrew Dovell with Nathaniel Corum, Jason Iftakhar, Michael Jones, Mike OReilly, Michael Pawlyn, Greg Pronko
UNITED STATES
ARTS & CULTURE
Haas&Hahn
BRAZIL
JR
Graffiti Research Lab
VARIOUS
Ministry of the Environment of Japan
JAPAN
Greywater Action
UNITED STATES
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
The Society for the Promotion of Area Resource Centres, National Slum Dwellers Federation
INDIA
Benjamin Productions
UNITED STATES
TRANSCRIPT: Brick City
Naresh Giangrande, Rob Hopkins
VARIOUS
New York City Department of Transportation
UNITED STATES
David Engwicht
VARIOUS
CROWDSOURCED PLANNING
Rainer Nlvak, Toomas Trapido
ESTONIA
International DarkSky Association
VARIOUS
FrontlineSMS, OpenStreetMap, Ushahidi
VARIOUS
ACCESS TO FOOD
Mari Gallagher
UNITED STATES
Cornell Food and Brand Lab
UNITED STATES
Global Diversity Crop Trust
NORWAY
PEACE & SECURITY
City of Cape Town, AHT Group, Sun Development Pty. Ltd.
SOUTH AFRICA
Center for Court Innovation
UNITED STATES
Engineers Without Borders, Human Translation
CAMBODIA
Empresa de Desarrollo Urbano de Medelln
COLOMBIA
Community members of San Pedro Apstol in Oaxaca, Mexico, help construct a bamboo shade structure for the Rural Sports Center designed by CaeiroCapurso.
Photo: Joao Caeiro/CaeiroCapurso
The Homeless World Cup Legacy Center in Santa Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil opened in 2010 as part of the 2010 Homeless World Cup and is now operated by Instituto Bola Pra Frente. It is one of many projects designed and developed by Architecture for Humanity with funding from Nike.
Photo: Daniel Feldman/Architecturefor Humanity
The Nadukupam Vangala Womens Center in Tamil Nadu opened in April 2008 for three womens selfhelp groups. Today social enterprises are run from these oneroom centers.
Photo: Purnima McCutcheon/Architecture for Humanity
Introduction
Lessons learned...
Cameron Sinclair
The land we bought was literally the site from hell. Architecture for Humanitys design fellow managed to design classrooms that we will be able to replicate on any site. I really think it could be the best built school in rural Uganda.
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