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6 Practices Recognized as Social Design Innovators by Curry Stone Design Prize

Patrick Lynch — Tue, 03 Jan 2017 12:30:00 +0000

In the past 10 years, the Curry Stone Design Prize has grown to become one of the world’s preeminent awards honoring socially impactful design professionals and the influence of design as a force for improving lives and strengthening communities.

Architecture’s Most Inspiring Leaders, Projects & People in 2015

AD Editorial Team — Thu, 17 Dec 2015 14:30:00 +0000

5,000 3D cameras to help preserve the architecture of a country torn by war; A team of Latin American architects that moved into Venezuela’s most dangerous neighborhoods in order to design and build with the community; A legendary architect who understood architecture’s relationship to the transformation of technology -- and whose projects have celebrated technology across a trajectory of multiple decades. These are the projects, initiatives and people who have proven to be leaders in 2015.

ASF Announces Winners of Inaugural International Awards

Katie Watkins — Thu, 25 Jun 2015 12:00:00 +0000

Architecture Sans Frontières has announced the winners of their inaugural ASF International Awards, which aim to recognize “efficient solutions developed by architects globally to the many social, environmental and economic challenges facing the built environment.”

Espacios de Paz 2015: 5 Cities, 5 Communities, 20 Architecture Collectives

ArchDaily Team — Wed, 10 Jun 2015 09:30:36 +0000

Between Sunday, May 17 and Monday, May 18 projects developed under the second phase of Espacios de Paz (Spaces of Peace) were inaugurated in five cities across Venezuela. A genuine exercise in participative design, 20 Latin American architecture groups worked for five weeks with communities in neighborhoods dominated by violence, high dropout rates and crime to convert deteriorated and abandoned spaces into public places of peace.