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At Dwell on Design this year (June 22-23, Los Angeles), we're hosting a free consultation booth where professional architects will be answering any and all design questions.

Your headaches, dreams, questions, and even your blueprints are welcome to a free dose of architectural advice from Dwell on Design and Architecture for Humanity. Sessions are free and available on a first-come basis, booked online, and last 25 minutes each.

A few days ago we released our 2013 Design Awards. Within two days over 3000 people viewed the presentation and hot on the heels of the smorgasbord of great architecture is our 2011-2012 Annual Report.

Location: MakiBiz in Ishinomaki, Miyagi, Japan
Start Date: 1 June 2013 (negotiable)
Number of Positions Available: 1
Position Type: Full-Time Independent Contractor
Commitment: Full-time (40 hours/week)

勤務地：宮城県石巻市 まきビズ
勤務開始日：２０１３年６月１日（応相談）
採用予定人数：１名
雇用形態：契約職員
勤務時間：フルタイム（週４０時間）

Location: MakiBiz in Ishinomaki, Miyagi, Japan
Start Date: 1 June 2013 (negotiable)
Number of Positions Available: 1
Position Type: Full-Time Independent Contractor
Commitment: Full-time (40 hours/week)

勤務地：宮城県石巻市 まきビズ
勤務開始日：２０１３年６月１日（応相談）
採用予定人数：１名
雇用形態：契約職員
勤務時間：フルタイム（週４０時間）

Every year Architecture for Humanity staff, design fellows, chapter members and volunteers work on structures that impact the lives of tens of thousands of people around the world. During the first week of May we hold our annual Design Awards night to celebrate and honor the best projects of the year.

click on links in slideshow for more information on each project.

The 2013 Awards include:
Tangible Beauty - A project that creates hidden social impact through a beautiful and well loved solution.
Pragmatic Optimism - A knowledge intense project that re-frames the conversation about design impact.
Best Concept Design - The project in development that excites us most.
Income Generated Project - A project that creates economic sustainability.

Keyword: Resilience. Our greatest challenge moving forward is bringing our international network in touch with the skills and resources they'll need for a sustainable (and resilient) future.

We're taking architecture to the street, the steering committee, the city hall and the capitol – because it will take a range of approaches, skills, and even generations, to see positive change happen where it's most needed. An informed community is one thing - an empowered community is quite another, and we're building tools and networks for whatever interventions are needed to make our built environment worthy of the 21st Century.

Find out how this gets done in this month's newsletter – and Thank You for helping make it all happen.

Architecture for Humanity Toronto
2013 Lecture & Symposium Series

Sergio Palleroni; Co-founder and Director of the BaSiC Initiative

May 21st, 2013
6:30 – 8:00 PM
The Centre for Social Innovation Annex, 720 Bathurst Street, Toronto, ON

Join us for the last night of our lecture series discussing communities and architecture.