Architecture: Excess vs. Relevance
"...For the past twenty years the voice of the architecture profession has mainly been drowned out by the computer generated sky-piercing towers of luxury... a new younger group of professionals began to question why we build and who to build for... On a global level 1:7 people live in unplanned settlements, favelas, refugee camps or internally displaced camps. Close to 5 billion people live in inadequate living conditions and have little access to education, health care and adequate sanitation. Almost none of these communities utilize the services of design professionals... There is immense opportunity for architects to work in the service of humanity..."The Huffington Post | The Architect's Dilemma: The Architecture of Excess vs. an Architecture of Relevance | Cameron Sinclair (Co-founder of Architecture for Humanity and the Open Architecture Network) | April 9, 2009
Thu 09 Apr 2009 09:35 AM |
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