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Humanitarian design

Shigeru Ban

Following the recent tsunami disaster in Southern Asia in late 2004, Japanese architect Shigeru Ban’s work with paper tube structures for the Kobe earthquake reconstruction and the United Nations stands out as an example of the potential of good design. Ban’s experimental work for wealthy private clients often informs and allows advances in his work for those less fortunate.

More humanitarian design efforts from recent years:

Sandbag House

Nader Khalili’s Aga Khan Award-winning sandbag house

Design Corps, migrant housing

Design Corp’s migrant farmworker housing

AFH and post-tsunami reconstruction

Architecture for Humanity’s Kirinda housing

More humanitarian design efforts from recent years:

Sandbag House

Nader Khalili’s Aga Khan Award-winning sandbag house

Design Corps, migrant housing

Design Corp’s migrant farmworker housing

AFH and post-tsunami reconstruction

Architecture for Humanity’s Kirinda housing

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