February 22nd, 2012 | by Andrew Benham | published in Blog, Rio Floods Project
This is the student blog documenting the master’s field trip to Brazil to continue work on the Rio Floods Petropolis Sports-for-Change project in Brazil, in collaboration with Architecture for Humanity. Click here for the entire series. ———————————— Nogueira, Itaipava – Sunday February 12th 9am: Sunshine and clear skies….. Nathaniel Corum, Architecture for Humanity’s head of [...]
February 21st, 2012 | by Wan-Ting Chiang | published in Rio Floods Project, Student Blog
This is the student blog documenting the master’s field trip to Brazil to continue work on the Rio Floods Petropolis Sports-for-Change project in Brazil, in collaboration with Architecture for Humanity. Click here for the entire series. ———————————— Second day in Itaipava, the day began with beautiful sunlight and a soft breeze carrying fresh tropical air [...]
February 20th, 2012 | by Tommaso Sacconi | published in Rio Floods Project, Student Blog
This is the student blog documenting the master’s field trip to Brazil to continue work on the Rio Floods Petropolis Sports-for-Change project in Brazil, in collaboration with Architecture for Humanity. Click here for the entire series. ———————————— Eight o’clock: Four taxis are waiting downstairs to drive us to the UN-HABITAT compound. Through the windshields, we [...]
February 16th, 2012 | by Ana Livi and Aude Choppinet | published in Rio Floods Project, Student Blog
This is the student blog documenting the master’s field trip to Brazil to continue work on the Rio Floods Petropolis Sports-for-Change project in Brazil, in collaboration with Architecture for Humanity. Click here for the entire series. ———————————— Part 1 | by Ana Livi On the third day of our trip we went on a bus [...]
February 14th, 2012 | by Yuya Fukada | published in Rio Floods Project, Student Blog
This is the second student blog entry of the master’s field trip to Brazil to continue work on the Petropolis Sports-for-Change project in Brazil, in collaboration with Architecture for Humanity. ———————————— Rio de Janeiro: Sunny, hot and humid. Looks like all of us are getting used to the heat and ready to set about the [...]
February 9th, 2012 | by Michela Guglielmi | published in Featured, Rio Floods Project, Student Blog
This is the first student diary entry of the master’s field trip to Brazil to continue work on the Petropolis Sports-for-Change project in Brazil, in collaboration with Architecture for Humanity. ———————————— A warm light bathes a chaotic sea of cubes, the flitter of colorful kites guided by barefoot children hopping atop the rooftops. Antennas, cables, [...]
February 3rd, 2012 | by admin | published in Blog, Featured
As you may have gathered from the photos we’ve recently posted on our Facebook page, our students have been hard at work for the past few weeks preparing their proposals for the Rio Post-Floods workshop led by Nathaniel Corum of Architecture for Humanity. Set within a larger government housing project for 61 families in Vale [...]
January 24th, 2012 | by admin | published in Blog, NewsBites
Don’t miss this excellent interview by Eric Ho of Architecture Commons with Rahul Mehrotra on the topics of $300 house project (which we previously covered here), low-cost housing in India, and practicing in the bottom of pyramid context for designers. Mehrotra is a practicing architect, urban designer and Professor of Urban Design at Harvard Graduate [...]
January 17th, 2012 | by admin | published in Blog, Featured
Currently into his second week, head of educational outreach for Architecture for Humanity Nathaniel Corum is at the ESARQ-UIC leading a special 3-week workshop with our students that aims to develop a series of proposals for a real-life project currently taking shape in Brazil, sponsored by Nike Gamechangers and led by Architecture for Humanity. The [...]
January 11th, 2012 | by admin | published in Blog, NewsBites
Just before the holiday, our students took part in a workshop led by Japanese architects experts in disaster reconstruction. Professors Norio Maki of Kyoto University’s Research Centre for Disaster Reduction Systems, Masahiro Sawada of Nagaoka Institute of Design’s Department of Architecture and Environmental Design, and Ikuo Kobayashi of Kobe Yamate University shared their expertise gathered [...]
