Since Hurricane Katrina swept through New Orleans, leaving devastation in its wake, the Make It Right Foundation has been working to redevelop the Lower 9th Ward by recruiting world-renowned architects (from Frank Gehry to Shigeru Ban) to the cause. The foundation, the brain-child of actor Brad Pitt, aims to design houses that aren’t just temporary solutions, but rather parts of an on-going process of sustainable, community development.
Learn more about the Make It Right Foundation‘s goals and progress, and check out some of the starchitect-deisgned prototypes that will eventually make up a 150-house neighborhood, in our ArchDaily original infographic, after the break.
Make It Right has done some decent work, but they should not be proud of building 75 houses with $40 million. Many other organizations throughout the Gulf Coast built many more houses, in far less time, with far, far fewer financial resources.
Also, Katrina made landfall on the Gulf Coast on August 29th, 2005, not the 28th, as the graphic says.
Make It Right is trying to push the envelope in terms of design, affordability and sustainability. Of course they could have build more “typical” houses with the same amount of money. But why waste the opportunity to innovate? Especially since one of the criteria is making the houses safer from future storms.