日本人建築士伊東豊雄氏が、建築界最高の賞プリツカー賞を受賞されました。伊東氏が主宰する伊東豊雄建築設計事務所がデザインした「みんなの広場」プロジェクトに、アーキテクチャー・フォー・ヒューマニティもデザイン／建築費を支援しています。

Japanese architect, Toyo Ito, has been awarded the 2013 Pritzker Prize. The Park for All project that Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects designed, is funded and supported by Architecture for Humanity.

23 February 2013, Architecture for Humanity led the charrette with local children at "We Are One" to have them imagine and create the future Kitakami. The charrette was reported by a local newspaper on 8 March 2013. アーキテクチャー・フォー・ヒューマニティは２０１３年２月２３日に、未来の北上を想像しようと地元の子供たちに呼びかけてワークショップを行いました。２０１３年３月８日には地元の新聞にこのワークショップの様子が掲載されました。

Last month, the Architecture for Humanity team was on hand for the opening gala of the Green Schools exhibition at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., where a fully functioning prototype of the 2009 Open Architecture Challenge Winner Sprout Space is currently on display.

Responding to a recent visit to Tohoku, and some startling discoveries made there, Reconstruction & Resiliency team Program Manager Michael Steiner asks "What if?" to any region or city vulnerable to natural disaster.

Earlier this month a Manual on buying and selling land in Haiti was published and made available for distribution. The Haiti Land Transaction Manual, Vol. 1 was the result of a year's collaboration between Architecture for Humanity, Habitat for Humanity International, local legal experts, and the Haitian government, it is an accessible manual that Haitians, NGOs and international investors can use to navigate the complex bureaucratic legal system and secure property - a critical first step to permanent reconstruction.

Read all about the Property Law Working Group in last year's interview with Design Fellow Frederique Siegel.

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On February 24th, the high-in-the-hills Children's Academy and Learning Center, a collaboration of Architecture for Humanity, BAR Architects in San Francisco and community organization Haiti Partners, celebrated the opening of its first school building.

"Over 1000 people attended, including a great many of the partners who have made the Children’s Academy possible," the Haiti Parners blog recounts. "Speeches were made, awards were given out, the WOZO choir sang, there was dancing," including a special Gagnam style demonstration from the community partner (not pictured).

Exactly two years have passed since the unforgettable catastrophe struck Tohoku and took away thousands of lives. We would like to send our condolences to all those affected, and those who are still waiting for their loved ones to be identified.

To commemorate this day, the Ishinomaki office held an event showcasing housing - a continuing issue for those who have lost their homes to the tsunami. We invited four architects from the "Wooden House Network (Mori-no-iezukuri-network") in Tohoku to present affordable ecological housing to override the preconception that architect-designed homes are more expensive and complicated to build than those produced by corporate housing manufacturers.

Architecture for Humanity and the Center for Green Schools at the U.S. Green Building Council Partner to Address School Facility Modernization Needs

Architecture for Humanity announced a strategic partnership with the Center for Green Schools at the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) this morning. The announcement comes in conjunction with today’s release of the Center for Green Schools 2013 State of Our Schools Report, which calls for the federal government to commission the first comprehensive study of our nation’s school facilities needs in 18 years.

Architecture for Humanity is collaborating with local design and construction professionals to reconstruct the northern Japan region where the earthquake and tsunami hit on March 11, 2011. Any community would have been devastated by such a disaster – Japan was better prepared than most. However, it is in the event of disaster that communities need assistance in rebuilding. Through our network of local design and construction professionals we are providing technical expertise to help build back better Tohoku.