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Hello all,
This is a quick reminder that you have 90 days left to enter the AMD Open Architecture Challenge (60 days if you only want to pay the early submission fee). Here are a few updates on each challenge;
Kallari Association, Ecuador - We were supposed to upload new images, topographical and supporting data to the Open Architecture Network this week, however our photographer Erin in Ecuador (or Peru??) has gone AWOL. This is not the
first time this has happened, 2 years ago we lost a photographer in the Himalayan mountains for a week because of a blizzard. As soon as she shows up, she will upload all the site photos she took. Thanks for your patience.
SIDAREC, Kenya - Last week SIDAREC won the 2007 Youth Global Challenge and last night they also launched 99.9 Ghetto FM, the community radio station that will run out of the facility some of you are designing. As of this morning the
station can be hear by 650,000 slum residents but in a few days you'll be able to
hear it online - Nothing like sweet tunes from the client to get your creative juices flowing.
Nyaya, Nepal - Nyaya Health officials are out in Nepal at the moment and are updating their
wiki with everything from operations protocol to maps. I'll be going out there in November (as with all the sites) to take video and to survey the land properly.
We have all three briefs up in Spanish thanks to Patricia Lozano and a couple of folks are working on Farsi and Czech. Anyone speak Swahili, Hindi or Chinese (Mandarin, Wu or Cantonese)? Swag and good karma given.
Tonight I will speak at 7pm at UC-Berkeley as part of the Fall 07 Architecture Lecture Series. I'm not sure if it is open but it wouldn't be an AFH lecture without a few gatecrashers. On Sunday we'll drop by at Taliesin West and on October
26th and 27th I will be in Zurich. If any of our Swiss readers would like to meet for a Saturday evening drink, or show me your fair city, please drop me a line - I have a day off!
A word of thanks to the the AIA NY and Center for Architecture for awarding Architecture for Humanity with the Foundation Award last week. We were thrilled to be the 2007 recipient and proud to donate the accompanying education scholarship
to Virginia Tech in honor of
Minal Panchal.
Sometime next week we will roll out a new AFH website that will be a lot more informative and up to date than our current version - your opinion matters to us, so feedback, ideas and insults will be most welcome.
Finally, we urge you to financially support our programs. Our average donation in 2006 was around $50 (but a lot of them) and as you will read below this led to thousands of people returning home. The maths are pretty simple, if we do not
have the funds available we cannot provide design or construction services to communities in need. In 2008 alone we have requests from dozens of villages and towns.
There are currently 35,000 people that read this letter every month, if each of you gave $5 a month we could double our impact in 2008. We don't just design solutions, we build them. So in the run up to the giving season we ask you to
support us in bringing these innovative ideas to life.
Cheers,
Cameron.
Eternal Optimist, Architecture for Humanity
1 646 765 0906
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Help us build better communities...
Over the past 12 months we've supported and run programs that have served over 13,000 people across the globe and connected dozens of professional firms and over 250 individual architects and volunteers to communities in need. Hundreds of
families are back in their homes because Architecture for Humanity funded programs helped connect design and construction professionals all across the gulf coast. For $1200 a day we can provide every single one of these programs.
If you believe in the power of good design, we urge you to support our work.
If you don't want to use an online payment system, then
click here for information to send us a check/money order/winning lottery tickets. You can also download our latest financial reports.
Donate today and keep us going all year
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Upcoming Events
October 17th 7pm: UC Berkeley, Wurster Hall, Berkeley, CA
October 25th - 28th : Zurich, Switzerland
November 7th 4pm : Emerging Green Builders Keynote, Greenbuild, Chicago
November 13th 12pm : Calgary Chamber of Commerce, Calgary, Canada
November 13th 6pm : AAC/HOK, Calgary, Canada
November 14th : University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
Interested in having Cameron Sinclair/AFH speak at your event?
Please contact
Thao Nguyen at
CAA Speakers for availability. Proceeds of all talks are donated to Architecture for Humanity and support our projects.
also....
only 4 desks left at the new Architecture for Humanity Eco-lab
The new Architecture for Humanity office will be an eco-lab of like-minded individuals and groups based on Folsom Street and Fourth street in San Francisco. We are working with Steelcase, Interface and others to create well designed space
specially developed for creative professionals.
It's $650 a desk all in (inc. phone and utilities) and we are looking for a couple more folks to join the motley crew which include a natural building design team, environmental bloggers and an emerging design practice. Perhaps you might
just need an office on the west coast and we can set up a desk for you. We can offer a deal on some 'virtual desk space' for those who only need an office in SF for a couple of days or weeks per month.
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