Add to ORKGWhy should design and construction professionals be involved in humanitarian work and the often-complex projects needed to deal with the recovery of post-disaster emergencies? How as disciplinary groups can they contribute to the long-term reconstruction processes needed to ensure the effective rebuilding of resilient communities after disaster? This paper explores these questions through profiling the emerging movement and literature of 'Humanitarian Architecture'. From Shigeru Ban to architects working within the United Nations system, many of the built environment professionals I have interviewed, are united by a belief that the processes of spatial problem-solving can actively contribute to the challenges of rebuilding resilie...
The need for adequate shelter and resettlement solutions for the growing number of displaced people ...
In post-disaster reconstruction in underdeveloped countries, architects all too often create design ...
Post-disaster reconstruction regularly materializes politically and institutionally dualistic in a s...
Never has the demand been so urgent for architects to respond to the design and planning challenges ...
From the targeted demolition of Mostar's Stari-Most Bridge in 1993 to the physical and social h...
This paper investigates the role of the architect in post-disaster reconstruction and questions thei...
Overview: In 2010 approximately 42 million people were forced to flee their homes due to natural dis...
The presented paper focuses on the role of architecture in post-disaster humanitarian efforts partic...
Architecture today has increasingly enhanced its concern for the social. The humanitarian field has ...
Wars and conflicts inevitably result in the destruction of the built-environmentand of communities. ...
The physical destruction accompanying disasters typically creates an urgency to rebuild and help sur...
In the past few decades, there has been increasing global concern for people in developing countries...
After a natural disaster, survivors feel devastated and incomplete, as if they’ve just lost one or m...
After every catastrophe, the importance of the building context and its effects in any environmental...
The 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami prompted arguably the largest relief and recovery operation ever seen....
The need for adequate shelter and resettlement solutions for the growing number of displaced people ...
In post-disaster reconstruction in underdeveloped countries, architects all too often create design ...
Post-disaster reconstruction regularly materializes politically and institutionally dualistic in a s...
Never has the demand been so urgent for architects to respond to the design and planning challenges ...
From the targeted demolition of Mostar's Stari-Most Bridge in 1993 to the physical and social h...
This paper investigates the role of the architect in post-disaster reconstruction and questions thei...
Overview: In 2010 approximately 42 million people were forced to flee their homes due to natural dis...
The presented paper focuses on the role of architecture in post-disaster humanitarian efforts partic...
Architecture today has increasingly enhanced its concern for the social. The humanitarian field has ...
Wars and conflicts inevitably result in the destruction of the built-environmentand of communities. ...
The physical destruction accompanying disasters typically creates an urgency to rebuild and help sur...
In the past few decades, there has been increasing global concern for people in developing countries...
After a natural disaster, survivors feel devastated and incomplete, as if they’ve just lost one or m...
After every catastrophe, the importance of the building context and its effects in any environmental...
The 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami prompted arguably the largest relief and recovery operation ever seen....
The need for adequate shelter and resettlement solutions for the growing number of displaced people ...
In post-disaster reconstruction in underdeveloped countries, architects all too often create design ...
Post-disaster reconstruction regularly materializes politically and institutionally dualistic in a s...