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Winners in Sportables Design Competition Announced
The Winners have been chosen in the Architecture for Humanity's Sportables Design Competition sponsored by Google Sketchup, where designers were challenged to "create a highly demountable, portable...
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Vote for Architecture for Humanity and Lulan at Amex Members Project
Christine wrote earlier about American Express' competition where cardholders and anyone else can vote to choose worthy projects, where the winner gets $ 1.5 million to "make the world a better...
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Amex Cardholders, Time To Vote on the Finalists at Members Project
We asked you once already to Vote for Architecture for Humanity and Lulan at Amex Members Project. It is a great project, run by Eve Blossom, where "we currently support over 650...
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Is the Architecture Fun Over Or Just Getting Started?
Nicolai Ouroussoff writes about architecture in the New York Times that "It Was Fun Till the Money Ran Out"-that before the financial cataclysm,
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Design the Classroom of the Future
In the world today there are 10 million classrooms in need of repair. The World Bank says we will need 10 million more new classrooms in more than 100 countries by 2015. And really, classrooms have...
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Leading Architects to Battle it Out at The Barbican Debate
This Thursday 9th April the Barbican Centre in London will host a heavyweight architectural showdown. The Barbican Debate, inspired by the Barbican's current Le Corbusier exhibition, will see...
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Quote of the Day: Cameron Sinclair on Ten Years of Architecture for Humanity
Ten years ago today a twenty-four year old Cameron Sinclair and Kate Stohr founded Architecture for Humanity, to seek "architectural solutions to humanitarian crisis and bring design services to...
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Cameron Sinclair Lights Fuse Under Zaha Hadid Architects at The Barbican Debate
There were so many apologies for Zaha Hadid's and her proposed stand in Patrick Schumacher's absence from The Barbican Debate in London last night that Italian architect
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Cameron Sinclair in Architectural Bunfights on Two Continents
Cameron Sinclair ready for battle Leonora previously posted about TreeHugger hero Cameron Sinclair dropping a bomb in the Barbican Debate in London, "equating asking Zaha Hadid to talk about about...
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Hub Culture Creates Conscious Collaboration + Innovation Factory in London
Where does your average international social/digital/environmental entrepreneur hang out when they're in London? Cameron Sinclair, Piers Fawkes, and John Grant all come to Hub Culture - a shared...
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Cameron Sinclair Gets Cheers from Architects
The last time we wrote about Cameron Sinclair talking to architects, he started a major controversy with his incendiary comments about starchitects. (see Cameron Sinclair in Architectural Bunfights on...
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What does the Classroom of the Future Look Like?
What does the classroom of the future look
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Teton Valley Community School Wins Open Architecture Challenge
Back in June we covered the selection of finalists in the Open Architecture Challenge to design the classroom of the future. Cameron Sinclair writes: This morning, an hour before the President takes...
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Curry Stone Design Prize Finalists Announced, Include TreeHugger Fave Rob...
Designers can be an instrumental force in improving people's lives, and the Curry Stone Prize is given architects who do the kind of work that normally would not make the conventional design scene,...
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Architecture for Humanity: 1 Year, 9 Completed Projects (Slideshow)
When Warren first wrote about Architecture for Humanity in TreeHugger five years ago, they were already five years old but were still a small, little-known org run out of a borrowed office in...
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The 3Rs for Haiti: Response, Recovery and Reconstruction
TreeHugger is full of ingenious ideas for rapidly deployable designs that can be shipped, dropped or inflated to house the homeless after disasters. One might think that an organization called
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Architecture For Humanity's Plan For Haiti; Cameron Sinclair Says "Steal This...
Cameron Sinclair isn't parachuting architects into Haiti. He is not making ridiculous promises. He writes: "When we are rebuilding, do not let the media set the time line and expectations for
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Are Shipping Containers An Answer For Haiti Housing?
The Clemson University School of Architecture is having a moment of fame with their SEED project, where they turn shipping containers into housing. In the wake of the Haiti disaster, Professor Doug...
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Core77 Design Contest Winners Tend To Tents
The results of Core77's One hour design challenge are in, and I am pleased to note that I called it, picking the Lifetent for our earlier post. I was really hoping that none of the many container...
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After Earthquakes: Top Down Solutions or Bottom Up?
TreeHugger didn't show many of the proposals for housing in Haiti, like Andrés Duany's proposals for a flatpack design (here in Jetson Green); We have spent too much time with Cameron Sinclair, who...
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Architecture For Humanity Project Funded by Kid's Hot Chocolate Sales is...
Congratulations are due today to Architecture For Humanity and their Design Fellow Susi Platt whose Yodakandiya Project in Sri Lanka has been shortlisted for the prestigious Aga Khan Award for...
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"Emerging Ghana" Wins Open Source House Competition for Local, Modular, and...
Last year, Enviu, known for the sustainable dance floor and club, launched the Open Source House project, a platform to share much needed sustainable and affordable housing solutions. The goal of...
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Cameron Sinclair and Architecture for Humanity Makes Play for Worldchanging
Cameron Sinclair, co-founder of Architecture for Humanity, has been writing for Worldchanging since 2004. Since then, AFH has grown like mad, building the Open Architecture Network with
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Architecture For Humanity's Really Boring Year in Haiti
Kate Stohr, the co-founder of Architecture for Humanity, dropped me a note suggesting that I have a look at their Year in Review of their work in Haiti. I did, and couldn't help but come to the...
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The EDV-1 From Daiwa: The Ultimate Post-Apocalyptic Expanding Container House
Images Credit Daiwa Cameron Sinclair is so going to want 10,000 of these amazing robotic shipping container sized instant houses. EDV stands for Emergency Disaster Vehicles, but it is really a...
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Cameron Sinclair Spearheads Japan Disaster Relief From SXSW Via Twitter & iPhone
This afternoon from the stage at South by Southwest, Architecture for Humanity's Cameron Sinclair will announce a $75,000 commitment from donors to rebuilding
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Beyond LEED to Net Zero Energy: RFK Jr., Suzuki and Sinclair's Keynotes at...
A solar-powered health clinic traveling on a camel. Windmills on Bangladesh tut-tuts recharges cell phones. Military bases converted to civic spaces. A
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Daiwa's Post-Apocalyptic Expanding Container House Is Coming To America (Video)
TreeHugger first showed the Daiwa EDV-1, the amazing robotic shipping container instant house, back in January. Now the prototype is coming Stateside (no doubt carried by supersonic helicopters) in...
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Worldchanging Acquired By Architecture For Humanity, To Become Tool For...
Worldchanging co-founder Alex Steffen has said that the "last decade was about imagining the solutions that could help us meet big planetary problems. This decade will be all about putting those...
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Is Volunteer Work In Architecture an "Easy Option"? One Starchitect Says Yes,...
Farshid Moussavi says "not really good" students are using it as " an excuse and an easy option."
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