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[Wesley Roe and Marjorie Lakin Erickson <lakinroe@silcom.com>]

Design Like You Give a Damn http://www.architectureforhumanity.org/
Architectural Responses to Humanitarian Crises

This publication is a compendium of innovative projects from around the 
world that demonstrate the power of design to improve lives. The first book 
to bring the best of humanitarian architecture and design to the printed 
page, Design Like You Give a Damn offers a history of the movement toward 
socially conscious design and showcases more than 80 contemporary solutions 
to such urgent needs as basic shelter, health care, education, and access 
to clean water, energy, and sanitation. Featured projects include some 
sponsored by Architecture for Humanity as well as many others undertaken 
independently, often against great odds.

Published by Metropolis Books and Thames and Hudson in June 2006, proceeds 
from the sale of this book will support the work of Architecture for Humanity.

The greatest humanitarian challenge we face today is that of providing 
shelter. Currently one in seven people lives in a slum or refugee camp, and 
more than three billion people—nearly half the world's population—do not 
have access to clean water or adequate sanitation. The physical design of 
our homes, neighborhoods, and communities shapes every aspect of our lives. 
Yet too often architects are desperately needed in the places where they 
can least be afforded.

Edited by Architecture for Humanity, Design Like You Give a Damn is a 
compendium of innovative projects from around the world that demonstrate 
the power of design to improve lives. The first book to bring the best of 
humanitarian architecture and design to the printed page, Design Like You 
Give a Damn offers a history of the movement toward socially conscious 
design and showcases more than 80 contemporary solutions to such urgent 
needs as basic shelter, health care, education, and access to clean water, 
energy, and sanitation. Featured projects include some sponsored by 
Architecture for Humanity as well as many others undertaken independently, 
often against great odds.

Design Like You Give a Damn is an indispensable resource for designers and 
humanitarian organizations charged with rebuilding after disaster and 
engaged in the search for sustainable development. It is also a call to 
action to anyone committed to building a better world.



Read an excerpt



Books will be shipped when available. Proceeds from the sale of this book 
will support the work of Architecture for Humanity.

        

FEATURING WORK BY:
Acumen Fund
Logan Allen
César Añorve
Arup Associates
Stephan Augustin
Barefoot Architects
Peter Brewin and William Crawford
Bustan
Cal-Earth
Center for Community Research and Design
Center for Urban Pedagogy
CHF International
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Common Ground Community
Design Corps
Detroit Collaborative Design Center
East Coast Architects
ELEMENTAL Housing Initiative
Ferrara Design
FTL Design Engineering Studio
Future Systems
Deborah Gans and Matt Jelacic
Grant Gibbs
Vinay Gupta


Habitat for Humanity Northern Ireland
Harvard Graduate School of Design
Health Habitat
Heavy Trash
Hierve-Diseñeria
Hole-in-the-Wall Schools
Hollmén Reuter Sandman Architects
William Hsu
I-Beam Design
Icosa Village
Intermediate Technology Development Group
Jorge Mario Jáuregui Architects
Justiceville, USA
Diébédo Francis Kéré
KickStart
LA Architects
LILA Design
Lotus Energy
Mad Housers
Montana State University
Native American Photovoltaics
Oxfam
Sergio Palleroni
Potters for Peace
Project Locus

Michael Rakowitz
RBGC Architecture, Research & Urbanism
Red Feather Development Group
Relief International
Roundabout Outdoor
Rural Studio
Rafi Segal and Eyal Weizman
SENSEable City Laboratory
Shelter Architecture
Shelter For Life
shelterproject
Shelter Systems
Shigeru Ban Architects
Shrinking Cities
Sphere Project
Strong Angel
Süd-Chemie
Swee Hong Ng
Technical University, Vienna
TechnoCraft
theskyisbeautiful architecture
UNHCR
World Conservation Union
World Shelters  
        
Founded in 1999 by Cameron Sinclair and Kate Stohr, Architecture for 
Humanity is a grassroots nonprofit organization that seeks architectural 
solutions to humanitarian crises. Through design-build programs, 
competitions, educational forums, and partnerships with community 
development and relief organizations, Architecture for Humanity creates 
opportunities for architects and designers from around the world to assist 
communities in need. Where resources and expertise are scarce, innovative, 
sustainable, and collaborative design can make a difference.



FRONT COVER: left, Rufisque Women’s Centre, Rufisque, Senegal, Hollmén 
Reuter Sandman Architects, photograph courtesy Hollmén Reuter Sandman 
Architects; right, Baninajar Refugee Camp, Khuzestan, Iran, shelters built 
with Super Adobe system created by Nader Khalili, photograph courtesy UNDP.	
        Published by Metropolis Books.
Available in bookstores and via online retailers in May 2006.

Design Like You Give a Damn
ISBN 1-933045-25-6
U.S. $35.00
Flexibound
8 x 8 in. | 336 pages |
350 illustrations | 300 in color
May 2006