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Humanitarian architecture: building change?

Architecture News - May 04, 2008 - 18:01   5206 views

Abby Mellick Lopes and Gaurang Desai
reviewing Architecture for Humanity: Many Architecture for Humanity projects follow the western style of participatory designwhere designers come in and ‘skill up’ local populations to participatein building projects. This practice has been widely criticized for itsassumption that modern development is inherently good and desirable.There are complex questions that should be addressed about theaspirations being served in what is developed, the historical dimensionof prior development and what the long term consequences of importingone cultural model into another {such as the community centreestablished in Ambedkar Nagar, India by AfH} might be. T
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