Humanitarian Architecture: 15 Stories of Architects Working After Disaster

by Esther Charlesworth

Never has the demand been so urgent for architects to respond to the design and planning challenges of rebuilding post-disaster sites and cities. In 2011, more people were displaced by natural disasters (42 million) than by wars and armed conflicts. And yet the number of architects equipped to deal with rebuilding the aftermath of these floods, fires, earthquake, typhoons and tsunamis is chronically short.

This book documents and analyses...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415818672
• ISBN13: 9780415818674
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.7" x 10.1"