Titre et auteur:

Beyond shelter : architecture and human dignity / edited by Marie J. Aquilino.

Publication:

New York : Metropolis Books : Available through D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, ©2011.

Description:

303 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 21 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction : The architecture of risk / Victoria L. Harris -- Part 1. Architecture after disaster : Learning from Aceh / Andrea Fitrianto -- Beyond shelter in the Solomon Islands / Andrea Nield -- News from the Teardrop Island / Sandra D'Urzo -- From transitional to permanent shelter: invaluable partnerships in Peru / International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies -- Part 2. What should governments do? : When people are involved / Thiruppugazh Venkatachalam -- Citizen architects in India / Rupal and Rajendra Desai -- What about out cities?: Rebuilding Muzaffarabad / Maggie Stephenson, Sheikh Ahsan Ahmed, and Zahid Amin -- Part 3. Urban risk and recovery : Below the sill plate: New Orleans East struggles to recover / Deborah Gans with James Dart -- Slumlifting: an informal toolbox for a new architecture / Alfredo Brillembourg and Hubert Klumpner -- Sustainable communities: avoiding disaster in the informal city / Arlene Lusterio -- Camouflaging disaster: 60 linear miles of local transborder urban conflict / Teddy Cruz -- Cultural heritage and disaster mitigation: a new alliance / Rohit Jigyasu -- Part 4. Environmental resilience : Green recovery / Anita van Breda and Brittany Smith -- The home as the world: Tamil Nadu / Jennifer E. Duyne Barenstein -- Design as mitigation in the Himalayas / Francesca Galeazzi -- On beauty, architecture, and crisis: the Salem Centre for Cardiac Surgery in Sudan / Raul Pantaleo -- Part 5. Teaching as strategic action : Cultivation resilience: the BaSiC Initiative / Sergio Palleroni -- Studio 804 in Greensburg, Kansas / Don Rockhill and Jenny Kivett -- Sustainable knowledge and internet technology / Mehran Gharaati, Kimon Onuma, and Guy Fimmers -- Part 6. Is prevention possible? : More to lose: the paradox of vulnerability / John Norton and Guillaume Chantry -- Building peace across African frontiers / Robin Cross and Naomi Handa Williams -- Haiti 2010: reports from the field / Marie J. Aquilino -- Afterword : Open letter to architects, engineers, and urbanists / Patrick Coulombel.

Résumé:

Twenty-five reports from the field by leaders of architecture and engineering firms, non-profits, research centers, and international agencies, on disaster prevention and sustainable recovery efforts in urban and rural locales around the world.

ISBN:

9781935202479 (paperback)
1935202472 (paperback)

Sujet:

Architecture and society.
Common good.
Architecture et société.
Bien commun.

Vedettes secondaires:

Aquilino, Marie Jeannine, 1958-

Architecture and human dignity

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 273651
Cote: BIB 207337
Statut: Disponible