Design Like You Give a Damn [2]

Design Like You Give a Damn [2]

Building Change from the Ground Up

Auteur:Kate Stohr, Cameron Sinclair, Architecture for Humanity

Uitgever:Abrams

ISBN: 978-0-8109-9702-8

  • Paperback
  • Engels
  • 336 pagina's
  • 11 mei 2012

Documenting over 100 exemplary projects from around the world, this book is packed with practical and ingenious design solutions that address the need for basic shelter, housing, education, health care, clean water and renewable energy.

Personal interviews and provocative case studies demonstrate how innovative design is reimagining community and uplifting lives. From swing sets in refugee shelters to a coed skate park in war-torn Afghanistan; building material innovations such as smog-eating concrete to innovative public policy that is repainting Brazil's urban slums, Design Like You Give a Damn [2] serves as a how-to guide for anyone seeking to build change from the ground up.

Design Like You Give a Damn [2] is an indispensable handbook for anyone engaged in the search for a more sustainable future.

Documenting over 100 exemplary projects from around the world, it is packed with practical and ingenious design solutions that address the need for basic shelter, housing, education, health care, clean water and renewable energy.

Personal interviews and provocative case studies demonstrate how innovative design is reimagining community and uplifting lives. From swing sets in refugee shelters to a coed skate park in war-torn Afghanistan; building material innovations such as smog-eating concrete to innovative public policy that is repainting Brazil's urban slums, Design Like You Give a Damn [2] serves as a how-to guide for anyone seeking to build change from the ground up.

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