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The rise of humanitarian architecture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 November 2014

Esther Charlesworth
Esther Charlesworth*
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esther.charlesworth@rmit.edu.au
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I started feeling – and subsequently expressing – that I did not want to be that kind of architect practising that type of architecture, as I had been previously trained. I wanted to work in the villages for the non-rich. I wanted to serve not the conventional but the alternative client, the un-served client: the villager, the slum dweller, the poor, and the marginalised.

Why should architects be involved in humanitarian work and the often-complex projects needed to deal with the recovery of post-disaster emergencies? How can the design profession contribute to the longterm reconstruction processes needed to ensure the effective rebuilding of vulnerable communities after disaster?

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arq: Architectural Research Quarterly , Volume 18 , Issue 3 , September 2014 , pp. 267 - 271
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