Add to ORKGNever 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. The fifteen case studies featured in the body of the book illustrate how architects can use spatial sensibility and integrated problem-solving skills to help alleviate both human and natural disa...
Reconstruction after natural disasters requires a broad view of the issues and the possibilities; it...
The title of this book, Architects Without Frontiers, points to the potential for architects to play...
Two hundred million people are displaced annually due to natural disasters with a further one billio...
Why should design and construction professionals be involved in humanitarian work and the often-comp...
Overview: In 2010 approximately 42 million people were forced to flee their homes due to natural dis...
This paper investigates the role of the architect in post-disaster reconstruction and questions thei...
The physical destruction accompanying disasters typically creates an urgency to rebuild and help sur...
After a natural disaster, survivors feel devastated and incomplete, as if they’ve just lost one or m...
In post-disaster reconstruction in underdeveloped countries, architects all too often create design ...
After every catastrophe, the importance of the building context and its effects in any environmental...
From the targeted demolition of Mostar's Stari-Most Bridge in 1993 to the physical and social h...
Earthquakes and other major disasters present communities and their authorities with an extraordinar...
The 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami prompted arguably the largest relief and recovery operation ever seen....
The presented paper focuses on the role of architecture in post-disaster humanitarian efforts partic...
As architects enter the profession, their primary objective should not be to create designs that wil...
Reconstruction after natural disasters requires a broad view of the issues and the possibilities; it...
The title of this book, Architects Without Frontiers, points to the potential for architects to play...
Two hundred million people are displaced annually due to natural disasters with a further one billio...
Why should design and construction professionals be involved in humanitarian work and the often-comp...
Overview: In 2010 approximately 42 million people were forced to flee their homes due to natural dis...
This paper investigates the role of the architect in post-disaster reconstruction and questions thei...
The physical destruction accompanying disasters typically creates an urgency to rebuild and help sur...
After a natural disaster, survivors feel devastated and incomplete, as if they’ve just lost one or m...
In post-disaster reconstruction in underdeveloped countries, architects all too often create design ...
After every catastrophe, the importance of the building context and its effects in any environmental...
From the targeted demolition of Mostar's Stari-Most Bridge in 1993 to the physical and social h...
Earthquakes and other major disasters present communities and their authorities with an extraordinar...
The 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami prompted arguably the largest relief and recovery operation ever seen....
The presented paper focuses on the role of architecture in post-disaster humanitarian efforts partic...
As architects enter the profession, their primary objective should not be to create designs that wil...
Reconstruction after natural disasters requires a broad view of the issues and the possibilities; it...
The title of this book, Architects Without Frontiers, points to the potential for architects to play...
Two hundred million people are displaced annually due to natural disasters with a further one billio...