Media Inquiries
We love talking about what we do. Our community partners and the designers who volunteer with us also love talking to the press. In fact, there are a lot of designers and partners who work with Architecture for Humanity. No surprise, we get a good number of media inquiries and requests to participate in speaking engagements. So, in order to accommodate your request, we've come up with a system:
Following the guidelines below will help us respond to your request as quickly as possible. Thank you for your interest in our work.
To schedule an interview:
Please contact Laura Galloway, our representative at Galloway Media Group to schedule press interviews. In your initial message, please include the following:
Frequently we are in different cities and time zones, often with limited phone service. As a result, we schedule time each week for interviews with Cameron Sinclair and Kate Stohr, co-founders of Architecture for Humanity.
To schedule a speaking engagement:
We love nothing more than talking about our work and community design in general.
Please email Thao Nguyen at Creative Artists Agency and include the following:
Please understand, we do ask for a contribution from those who can afford it when scheduling speaking engagements. This supports the work of volunteer designers and helps defray the costs of travel and our staff time in scheduling and preparing for the event. It also allows us to reach out and work with student groups, smaller community organizations and others who wouldn't otherwise be able to learn about our work.
For background information:
Please take the time to go through our site. It gives information on our mission, our history, and information on all current and past projects. You will also want to visit the Open Architecture Network, which is managed by Architecture for Humanity, and hosts images and detailed descriptions of all of our projects. Finally, our book Design Like You Give a Damn, offers a good primer in social design.
For high-res project images and updates
For a current list of projects by name, visit the Projects area of our site. There you will find information on each project and a link to its project page on the Open Architecture Network, our open-source network for design solutions. Here you will find high resolution images, project descriptions and the latest project updates.
Note: All images at the highest resolution that we have available may be downloaded from the Open Architecture Network. YES! ALL OF THEM. It's one-stop shopping. Of course, if you are looking for specific images and you think we may not have posted the latest and greatest versions yet (a possibility) you should feel free to contact us.
Image credits
We rely on the kindness and generosity of the designers who volunteer their time with us. They put countless hours into preparing drawings, renderings and documenting their project. For that reason, we require that all images we provide for publication include design and/or photo credits. Yes, strong language, we know. However, this is important to our designers and so it is important to us. These credits can be found on with the file information on the Open Architecture Network next to the download link. If the credit information is unclear, please contact us.
We also ask that as you are writing or thinking about the layout of your piece that you recognize our designers' work. Often readers get confused and think that Architecture for Humanity has designed a given project, when in fact the design work was provided pro bono by a firm or individual designer and we supported the project in other ways.
Be generous
If you care about community design and would like to help us continue to create opportunities for architects to volunteer their services, please provide a call for donations or a link to our site in your piece. All that time you put into making your story as compelling as possible does no good if people don't know how to get involved and support good design.
