Humanitarian Architecture
Subtitle: 15 Stories of Architects Working after Disaster
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780415818667
Subjects: Architecture; Humanitarian assistance; Natural disasters; Architects, biography
Description: Never has the demand been so urgent for architects to respond to the design and planning challenges of rebuilding post-disaster sites and cities. In 2011, more people were displaced by natural disasters (42 million) than by wars and armed conflicts. And yet the number of architects equipped to deal with rebuilding the aftermath of these floods, fires, earthquake, typhoons and tsunamis is chronically short. This book documents and analyses the expanding role for architects in designing projects for communities after the event of a natural disaster.