Beyond shelter : architecture and human dignity / edited by Marie J. Aquilino.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Aquilino, Marie Jeannine, 1958-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture and society.

Common good.

Physical Description:

303 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm

Other Title:

Architecture and human dignity

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Metropolis Books : Available through D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, 2010.

Summary:

Twenty-five reports from the field by leaders of architecture and engineering firms, non-profits, research centers, and international agencies, on disaster prevention and sustainable recovery efforts in urban and rural locales around the world.

Contents:

Introduction : The architecture of risk / Victoria L. Harris

Part 1. Architecture after disaster : Learning from Aceh / Andrea Fitrianto

Beyond shelter in the Solomon Islands / Andrea Nield

News from the Teardrop Island / Sandra D'Urzo

From transitional to permanent shelter: invaluable partnerships in Peru / International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies

Part 2. What should governments do? : When people are involved / Thiruppugazh Venkatachalam

Citizen architects in India / Rupal and Rajendra Desai

What about out cities?: Rebuilding Muzaffarabad / Maggie Stephenson, Sheikh Ahsan Ahmed, and Zahid Amin

Part 3. Urban risk and recovery : Below the sill plate: New Orleans East struggles to recover / Deborah Gans with James Dart

Slumlifting: an informal toolbox for a new architecture / Alfredo Brillembourg and Hubert Klumpner

Sustainable communities: avoiding disaster in the informal city / Arlene Lusterio

Camouflaging disaster: 60 linear miles of local transborder urban conflict / Teddy Cruz

Cultural heritage and disaster mitigation: a new alliance / Rohit Jigyasu

Part 4. Environmental resilience : Green recovery / Anita van Breda and Brittany Smith

The home as the world: Tamil Nadu / Jennifer E. Duyne Barenstein

Design as mitigation in the Himalayas / Francesca Galeazzi

On beauty, architecture, and crisis: the Salem Centre for Cardiac Surgery in Sudan / Raul Pantaleo

Part 5. Teaching as strategic action : Cultivation resilience: the BaSiC Initiative / Sergio Palleroni

Studio 804 in Greensburg, Kansas / Don Rockhill and Jenny Kivett

Sustainable knowledge and internet technology / Mehran Gharaati, Kimon Onuma, and Guy Fimmers

Part 6. Is prevention possible? : More to lose: the paradox of vulnerability / John Norton and Guillaume Chantry

Building peace across African frontiers / Robin Cross and Naomi Handa Williams

Haiti 2010: reports from the field / Marie J. Aquilino

Afterword : Open letter to architects, engineers, and urbanists / Patrick Coulombel.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781935202479

1935202472

OCLC:

692287519