Architecture by moonlight : rebuilding Haiti, redrafting a life / Paul E. Fallon ; jacket design, Mindy Basinger Hill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fallon, Paul E., author.

Contributor:

Hill, Mindy Basinger, bookjacket designer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Haiti Earthquake, Haiti, 2010.

Haiti.

Fallon, Paul E.

Local Subjects:

Haiti.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Columbia, Missouri : University of Missouri Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

When a natural disaster strikes, one imposing obstacle always impedes recovery: the need to rebuild. Not just homes, schools, and other buildings but also lives must be reconstructed. Yet amid the horror there is also the opportunity to build back better, to create more resilient buildings and deeper human connections. After Haiti's 2010 earthquake, architect Paul E. Fallon wanted to help rebuild the magic island he had visited the previous summer. Over the next three years, he made seventeen trips to design and supervise construction of an orphanage and a school in Grand Goâve. In the process, he confronted the challenges of building in a country with sparse materials and with laborers predisposed toward magic over physics. Architecture by Moonlight is about much more than construction, however. Readers will also experience the many relationships Fallon developed as he balanced the contradictory demands of a boisterous American family constructing a memorial for their deceased daughter and Evangelical missionaries more interested in saving souls than filling bellies. Dieunison, a wily Haitian orphan, captured Fallon's heart and exemplifies both Haiti's tragedy and its indomitable spirit. Fallon's personal experience is an eloquent tale of "an ensemble of incomplete people struggling in a land of great trial and great promise, trying to better understand their place on Earth." He reveals how, when seemingly different people come together, we succeed by seeking our commonality. Architecture by Moonlight illustrates our strength to rise above disaster and celebrate recovery, perseverance, and humanity.

Contents:

Demolition : January 12, 2010

Plastic sheathing : August 2010

Machetes : September 2010

Bulldozers : January 2011

Stakes : May 2011

Supervision : June-December 2011

Steel reinforcing : December 2011-January 2012

Aggregate : January-February 2012

Buckets and wheelbarrows : February-March 2012

CMU : March-April 2012

Formwork : April-May 2012

Rework : May-June 2012

Concrete : June-July 2012

Carpentry : July-August 2012

Curing : August-September 2012

Plaster : September-October 2012

Plumbing : October-November 2012

Paint : November-December.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 24, 2014).

ISBN:

9780826273321

0826273327

OCLC:

900223848