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. 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 disasters. The cases include:
Lizzie Babister - Department of International Development, UK.
Shigeru Ban - Winner of The Pritzker Architecture Prize 2014,
Shigeru Ban Architects and Voluntary Architects' Network, Japan.
Eric Cesal - Disaster Reconstruction and Resiliency Studio and
Architecture for Humanity, Japan. Hsieh Ying Chun - Atelier 3,
Taiwan. Nathaniel Corum - Education Outreach and Architecture for
Humanity, USA. Sandra D'Urzo - Shelter and Settlements and
International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent
Societies, Switzerland. Brett Moore - World Vision International,
Australia. Michael Murphy - MASS Design Group, USA. David Perkes -
Gulf Coast Community Design Studio, USA. Paul Pholeros -
Healthabitat, Australia. Patama Roonrakwit - Community Architects
for Shelter and Environment, Thailand. Graham Saunders -
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies,
Switzerland. Kirtee Shah - Ahmedabad Study Action Group, India.
Maggie Stephenson - UN-HABITAT, Haiti. Anna Wachtmeister - Catholic
Organisation for Relief and Redevelopment Aid, the Netherlands. The
interviews and supporting essays show built environment
professionals collaborating with post-disaster communities as
facilitators, collaborators and negotiators of land, space and
shelter, rather than as 'save the world' modernists, as often
portrayed in the design media. The goal is social and physical
reconstruction, as a collaborative process involving a damaged
community and its local culture, environment and economy; not just
shelter 'projects' that 'build' houses but leave no economic
footprint or longer-term community infrastructure. What defines and
unites the architects interviewed for Humanitarian Architecture is
their collective belief that through a consultative process of
spatial problem solving, the design profession can contribute in a
significant way to the complex post-disaster challenge of
rebuilding a city and its community.
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