Design Like You Give a Damn

In 1999, Cameron Sinclair and his mentor Charles Lauster felt called to respond to the conflict in Kosovo, which resulted in the damage or destruction of more than half of the housing stock in the region. Their response took the form of a design competition for emergency housing that operated from a laptop computer in the corner of Sinclair’s office cubicle; it has since grown into a major nonprofit organization, Architecture for Humanity, that connects architects and their designs with relief agencies around the world. In Design Like You Give a Damn, the organization’s first book, Sinclair and others lay out the history of the group amid the larger history of affordable and disaster relief housing, and provide 80 case studies to illustrate the history of such initiatives.
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