1-5 of 19 matching articles 5 20 100 All Architecture for Humanity: A plan for Reconstruction Cameron Sinclair • 17 January 2010 Cameron Sinclair, co-founder of Architecture for Humanity and the Open Architecture Network, sets out the 5 year timetable for reconstruction in Haiti. World Malaria Day: can architecture help in the fight against malaria? Diana Inegbenebor/ARCHIVE Institute • 25 April 2010 The 25th of April, 2010, is World Malaria Day. Diana Inegbenebor of the ARCHIVE Institute argues that alongside treated bed nets and indoor residual spraying, adequate housing should be considered a third site for intervention against malaria. Rahul Mehrotra and the "kinetic city": designing for informality in Mumbai Kerwin Datu • 24 May 2010 Mumbai architect and MIT Professor of Architecture Rahul Mehrotra argues that the positive aspects of the kinetic city or bazaar city that Mumbai embodies must be embraced to overcome the false formal v. informal conception of the city and to turn density into economic opportunity. Sana'a running out of water with no plan to save it IRIN • 23 March 2010 Yemen's world heritage capital city Sana'a is projected to run out of groundwater by 2017, but apart from off-hand proposals to relocate the city or pump desalinated water uphill from the coast, no real plans are in place to save the city in a worst-case scenario. Spelling out the five 'P's of sustainable construction Dominik Baumann • 20 March 2012 To re-energise the idea of sustainable construction, the Holcim Foundation proposes five qualitative measures that will help make a building truly endure. 1 2 3 4
