Beyond shelter :
architecture for crisis / edited by Marie J. Aquilino
Thames and Hudson, London : 2011
303 p. : il.
ISBN 9780500289150
Biblioteca Sbc Aprendizaje A-72:316 BEY
Questions about the
role of architects in disaster recovery have been circulating since the Indian
Ocean tsunami killed more than 200,000 people in 2004. Ninety-eight
percent of victims of natural disasters are in the developing world, but no one
is immune as extreme temperatures, flooding and droughts expose vast numbers to
the experience of the eco-refugee.
“Beyond Shelter”
features 25 generously illustrated reports from all over the world. Written
by the founders of some of the world’s most provocative architecture and
engineering firms, nonprofit companies and research centres and leaders of such
prominent organizations as the Red Cross, UN-Habitat and the World Wildlife
Fund, they demonstrate that evolving risk requires new ways of thinking, and
that architects have a leading role to play.
Marie J. Aquilino is a professor of architectural history at the École
Spéciale d’Architecture (ESA) in Paris and is developing a program to train
architecture students to work in contexts of extreme need in the developing
world. Aquilino is collaborating with the International Federation of the Red
Cross to set up a working group on the reconstruction of Haiti, and serves as
associate program director of the BaSiC Initiative.
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