The demand is now urgent for architects to respond to the design
and planning challenges of rebuilding cities and landscapes being
destroyed by civil conflict, (un)natural disasters, political
instability, and poverty. The number of people fleeing their homes
and being displaced by such conflict now totals almost 100 million.
Despite the massive human and physical costs of these crises, the
number of architects, planners, and landscape architects equipped
to work with disaster and development professionals in rebuilding
in the aftermath of conflict, floods, fires, earthquakes, typhoons,
and tsunamis remains chronically low. Design for Fragility expands
the nascent, but rapidly growing field of humanitarian architecture
by exploring 13 design responses to such conflict and displacement
across 11 countries, including Australia, Bangladesh, Fiji, India,
Iran, Pakistan, and the USA. Linked to this displacement is the
systemic poverty that often lingers from previous colonial
territories and eras, in which many of the featured projects in the
book are located. This book follows Charlesworth's Humanitarian
Architecture: 15 Stories of Architects Working After Disasters
(Routledge 2014), which analysed the role for architects in
exercising 'spatial agency' while designing shelter and settlement
projects for communities after conflict and disaster. Since that
time, the humanitarian architecture movement has expanded globally
with the prominence of design agencies including the MASS Design
Group and Architecture Sans Frontieres (ASF) International. Design
for Fragility analyses this role of spatial agency in architecture
by addressing diverse conditions of fragility across 13 built
projects - from refugee housing in Uganda and an orphanage for
teenage girls in Iran to a residential centre in Northern Australia
for people with acquired brain injury. Each of the projects
profiled in this book explore: The experiences and perceptions of
fragility - or precarity - that provided a design challenge and
directed the particular spatial response. The specific typology of
the project, whether that be a housing, health, children's, or a
First Nations project. The personal values that influenced the
architects to work on humanitarian/community projects and how
consultation occurred with diverse and often contested project
stakeholders. The experiences of the design team as well as project
managers, occupants, and donors of the built project, exploring
what they deemed successful about the project, and what, if any,
were its limitations. Beautifully designed with over 150
illustrations, this practical and inspiring book is for architects,
landscape architects, design educators, humanitarian and
development aid agencies that are involved, or seeking to be part,
of future disaster mitigation and reconstruction strategies and
projects, globally.
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