Design Like You Give A Damn: Architectural Responses To Humanitarian Crises
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. (San Francisco Chronicle2006-11-19)A book that is lovely in every sense of the word.. ...makes clear just how much talent is currently going to waste designing McMansions. (Bill McKibbenNew York Review of Books2006-11-16)Design Like You Give A Damn screams its message in its title. Good design is not a luxury, but a necessity. (The Scotsman2006-07-16)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. (Alice WatersChez Panisse Foundation2006-09-07)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. (Treehugger2006-07-06)If you care about the future we're building, you ought to own a copy of Design Like You Give a Damn (Alex SteffenWorld Changing2006-09-01)...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. (Leilani Labong7X7 Magazine2006-10-27)