Design for Fragility: 13 Stories of Humanitarian Architects

by John Fien and Esther Charlesworth

Book Overview

The demand is now urgent for architects to respond to the design and planning challenges of rebuilding cities and landscapes being destroyed by civil conflict, (un)natural disasters, political instability, and poverty. The number of people fleeing their homes and being displaced by such conflict now totals almost 100 million. Despite the massive human and physical costs of these crises, the number of architects, planners, and landscape architects...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367555379
• ISBN13: 9780367555375
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 210 Pages