Architects Without Borders

Wired Magazine interviews Cameron Sinclair, director of Architecture for Humanity -- an effort to bring world-class architecture to impoverished areas.

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August 4, 2004, 1:00 PM PDT

By Chris Steins @planetizen

"The 5-year-old group hosts Web-based competitions in which architects and designers submit plan proposals for sites around the world affected by war, disease or natural disaster -- an attempt to harness the Net's networking power to tackle humanitarian crises."

Says Cameron Sinclair: "Architects aren't normally in the business of responding to humanitarian crises. The online competitions are a way to put the resources and skills of designers around the world to work in a manner that's perfectly suited for them -- a way that can provide tangible and immediate benefit."

Thanks to ArchNewsNow

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