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The greatest humanitarian challenge we face today is that of providing shelter. Currently one in seven people lives in a slum or refugee camp, and more than 3,000,000,000 people--nearly half the world's population--do not have access to clean water or adequate sanitation. The physical design of our homes, neighborhoods and communities shapes every aspect of our lives. Yet too often architects are desperately needed in the places where they can least be afforded.
Edited by Architecture for Humanity and now in its third printing, Design Like You Give a Damn is a compendium of innovative projects from around the world that demonstrate the power of design to improve lives. The first book to bring the best of humanitarian architecture and design to the printed page, Design Like You Give a Damn offers a history of the movement toward socially conscious design, and showcases more than 80 contemporary solutions to such urgent needs as basic shelter, healthcare, education and access to clean water, energy and sanitation.
Design Like You Give a Damn is an indispensable resource for designers and humanitarian organizations charged with rebuilding after disaster and engaged in the search for sustainable development. It is also a call to action to anyone committed to building a better world.
Edited by Architecture for Humanity and now in its third printing, Design Like You Give a Damn is a compendium of innovative projects from around the world that demonstrate the power of design to improve lives. The first book to bring the best of humanitarian architecture and design to the printed page, Design Like You Give a Damn offers a history of the movement toward socially conscious design, and showcases more than 80 contemporary solutions to such urgent needs as basic shelter, healthcare, education and access to clean water, energy and sanitation.
Design Like You Give a Damn is an indispensable resource for designers and humanitarian organizations charged with rebuilding after disaster and engaged in the search for sustainable development. It is also a call to action to anyone committed to building a better world.
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Development to Call Home,
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This review is from: Design Like You Give a Damn: Architectural Responses to Humanitarian Crises (Paperback)
This is an interesting book with one foot in Architecture and the other in Political Science and Cultural Anthropology. The book is full of pictures and stories of various projects in designing temporary shelters, transitional housing, and community infrastructure. There are some interesting interviews and the collection of designing experiences is from around the world. Many of the designs are contributions to project design contest. Many of the best designs are not used because of the problems of bureaucracy. The delivery of materials can cost as much as the materials themselves. The more successful designs utilize local materials and expertise.I found the reading intensely interesting is areas that interested me. I thought of skipping areas that were not particularly of interest to me, but either I looked ahead at the pictures and was curious or before I finished an article, I was intrigued by some point expressed, and so read the whole book. All organizations are listed and many web sites.
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Soon to be dog-eared,
By desertknitter - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Design Like You Give a Damn: Architectural Responses to Humanitarian Crises (Paperback)
I've read this book from cover to cover - only the second architecture book I've finished all the way through. The first 'Good deeds, good design' (ed. Bryan Bell) is very similar in its exploration of sustainable innovative design. I've been waiting awhile for something as inspirational as that book, and 'Design Like You Give A Damn' doesn't disappoint.While covering some of the same projects as 'Good Deeds, Good Design' it looks at quite a few more as well. The emphasis is on cultural, rather than environmental, sustainability (but the latter isn't ignored). The graphics make it as accessible as a coffee table book (without the shallowness) and the information is clear and easy to read. Best of all, it avoids the self indulgent, self-obsessed rhetoric that seems to be so common in architectural books. After finishing each section of this book I'm left with so many questions that the book couldn't possibly answer. How do I get involved or start one of these projects? What tools were used in the participation stage? (In this respect 'Good Deeds' is a bit more helpful?) How exactly does the construction work for the adobe huts that are lit on fire from the inside? 'Design Like You Give A Damn' promotes a philosophy of initiative, resourcefulness and not waiting for things to be handed to you. As such, the greatest compliment I can pay this book (and its authors) is that I finished it with lots of questions and enthusiasm. 38 of 39 people found the following review helpful
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This Book Sets a New Standard,
By Timothy Lundquist - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Design Like You Give a Damn: Architectural Responses to Humanitarian Crises (Paperback)
I am a community planner working in sustainable design. I have a library of books that pitch the green, the innovative , mod construction, etc.Most of them are, at the end of the day, fluff... many promoting a small group of architects that get together to publish a sort of self serving tome. THIS BOOK IS THE EXCEPTION! It is sure to become the standard as a resource for inspired design world wide, and the way it is constructed is brilliant, with the design and the technical well illustrated, along with an engaging background story of how the project came about, what were the challenges, etc. I am purchasing copies of this book for associates so they can get the benefit of this remarkable overview of creative, sustainable, and innovative work being done world-wide by designers, tinkers , inventors, and creative folks that really do Give a Damn I hope they issue a new edition every couple of years. Seriously, its like the original Whole Earth in the important and liberating information contained... an important new resource Buy this Book. 21 of 22 people found the following review helpful
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An encyclopedia of inspiration,
By A W - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Design Like You Give a Damn: Architectural Responses to Humanitarian Crises (Paperback)
To echo what some of the other reviewers have written, this book is really marvelous inspiration. It describes a series of projects, most built, that are mostly low tech, low cost, people-centered. It is mainly architecture (buildings), but highlights a few projects that fall more into the 'appropriate tech' catagory: pumps, water carriers, solar stills, bush toilets...Like most architecture books, this isn't a technical guide, but it is a well written, inspirational look at a few dozen examples of architecture and design applied to their highest good. |
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