Architecture for Humanity
Posted Sat, 02/28/2009 - 00:11 by muenda
Posted Wed, 02/04/2009 - 13:11 by muenda
afh | charleston is officially a chapter today. That doesn't really change much of the work we are doiong, but I thought I would share this. Keep your eye out for some coming announcements via email.
Posted Fri, 01/30/2009 - 13:21 by muenda
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Posted Tue, 01/13/2009 - 03:11 by muenda
In advance of the charrette, we would like to get some feedback from the community that we are working for. The charrette team is developing a questionnaire and the A-Team is pulling together maps and background information. We would like your help for the questionnaire. Please post a question for consideration to be added to the questionnaire. The questionnaire will be distributed to the community and collected prior to the charette. Thank you for your help. We are very close to starting some really good work in Charleston. I look forward to seeing everyone on the 24th.
Posted Tue, 01/13/2009 - 03:04 by muenda
I hope the New Year is finding you well. We have had some great meetings regarding our first project....Crossing the Crosstown. We think the best way to begin our own awareness of the site is to have......you've got it.
Posted Fri, 12/19/2008 - 22:03 by muenda
The inaugural project will be a focused on the issue of safety for the pedestrians and cyclists in the neighborhoods bounding the crosstown. This hazard discourages anyone not in an automobile from traveling this path between Elliotborough and North Central. AFH, along with these Communities, would like to explore the nature of pedestrian and bicycle traffic and what would be good solutions and interventions that AFH can accomplish on behalf of the surrounding neighborhoods.
Posted Sat, 11/22/2008 - 17:38 by muenda
We had another good night of drinks and discussion. Thanks for joining us last Thursday. Our first project will be, drumroll please!
Posted Thu, 11/20/2008 - 17:38 by muenda
Architecture For Humanity's Gulf Coast projects are featured in the Iconoclast series Nov. 20th at 10PM E/P on the Sundance Channel. The Guardians Institute designed by the Rockwell Group, and the Biloxi Model Home Program show that bringing back a sense of community after a disaster takes more than just building.
Posted Tue, 11/18/2008 - 06:13 by muenda
There have been a few project ideas already posted and for those of you that have emailed me, I will start adding them as comments to this post. Please use the comment function below to add your ideas for projects.Here are a few of the ideas we discussed at the committee meeting last week.
Posted Sat, 11/08/2008 - 23:56 by muenda
Please use the comment function below to share ideas, questions, and answers related to fund-rasing.
Posted Sat, 11/08/2008 - 23:22 by muenda
The Clients can be anyone from non-profits to community organizations or
Posted Fri, 10/24/2008 - 01:21 by muenda
Cameron Sinclair speaks with Charles Hodgson on CNN's Principal Voices' Design for Good show, spotlighting the Biloxi Model Home Program and the SIDAREC Youth Technology and Media Lab.
Posted Tue, 10/21/2008 - 20:35 by muenda
I think a great place to start would be to build a handicap ramp for a local family in need. Most of the time due to lack of design and money a ramp is built in a ram shackle way and becomes an isore on the front of a house. How great it would be to design and build a ramp that fits in well with the existing house and looks as if it was meant to be. The United Methodist Relief Center has several families in need in the area. This would be a good, quick, and inexpensive project to get us rolling.
Posted Tue, 10/21/2008 - 16:35 by muenda
About Architecture for Humanity
"Architecture for Humanity represents the finest of the new breed of architectural leadership, employing architectural skills and directing them for the larger good. Committed, unapologetically architectural in name and mission, Architecture for Humanity stands up for people in need."
– Robert Ivy, Editor in Chief, Architectural Record
Posted Tue, 10/21/2008 - 16:31 by muenda
We are a chapter of Architecture for Humanity, which is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization founded in 1999 to promote architectural and design solutions to global and local, social and humanitarian crises.
Posted Tue, 10/21/2008 - 13:40 by muenda
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Posted Mon, 10/20/2008 - 16:42 by muenda
Portable classrooms are cramped, dark, stuffy, noisy and often toxic. Yet more than 6 million students in the U.S. alone spend the better part of their days in them. Teachers and students know what makes learning spaces work. Let's let them design the classroom of the future.
Open Architecture Challenge: Portable Classrooms.
Posted Thu, 10/16/2008 - 03:03 by muenda
Please share your thoughts. We want to be the catalyst and a hub to share your ideas with people who would like help and who want to help.See you Thurday night._mat
Posted Thu, 10/16/2008 - 01:04 by muenda
Cameron Sinclair of Architecture For Humanity talks about the role of the Open Architecture Network plays in helping architects and designers collaborate in practical ways and directly impact people's lives
Posted Wed, 10/01/2008 - 16:50 by muenda
Cameron Sinclair of Architecture For Humanity speaks about the importance of voting, and the affects policy has on our built environment.
Posted Tue, 09/23/2008 - 11:59 by muenda
Much thanks Cameron Sinclair for sharing his experiences and inspring lecture. We would also like to thank Eve Blossom and Lulan Artisans for supporting this lecture series. We would like to encourage everyone to please read more and vote for Eve's American Express Project and continue to support architecture for humanity.
Posted Fri, 09/19/2008 - 19:13 by muenda
We've just started a new architecture for humanity chapter in Charleston and we've decided to mark the occasion by inviting Cameron Sinclair to speak. Partially true... Lulan Artisans has already arranged for Cameron to come to Charleston to speak at their Sustainable Community Lecture Series on Monday the 22nd. We hope you all can make it.
Posted Wed, 09/10/2008 - 22:02 by muenda
Whether it's designing efficient skyscrapers, creating whole cities which aim to be carbon neutral or re-building out of the rubble created by natural disasters, architects are changing the way we experience the built environment, finding solutions to the ecological challenges -- big and small -- of the 21st century.
Posted Tue, 08/19/2008 - 23:18 by muenda
Architecture For Humanity is featured in this Frontline World report. The video features Purnima McCutcheon's work with communities in India.
Posted Tue, 08/19/2008 - 21:44 by muenda
Architecture For Humanity is featured in this Frontline World report. The video features Purnima McCutcheon's work with communities in India.
Posted Wed, 07/30/2008 - 21:53 by muenda
Fabrica Workshop Soccer Match
Author: afh08
Keywords: Fabrica soccer
Added: July 30, 2008
Posted Wed, 07/30/2008 - 18:40 by muenda
Lusaka Pride
Author: afh08
Keywords: Lusaka Pride soccer
Added: July 30, 2008
Posted Tue, 07/29/2008 - 23:42 by muenda
Example of regenerative energy.
Author: afh08
Keywords: regenerative technology
Added: July 29, 2008
Posted Tue, 07/29/2008 - 22:46 by muenda
Animation
Author: afh08
Keywords: Nshima United
Added: July 29, 2008
Posted Tue, 07/01/2008 - 00:56 by muenda
Cameron Sinclair discusses the www.openarchitecturenetwork.org website, an online open source community dedicated to improving living conditions through innovative and sustainable design.
