Architects are used to selling ideas, often locally. Sharing ideas? To use an old phrase, "Does Macy's tell Gimbels?"Kate Stohr and Cameron Sinclair, co-founders of Architecture for Humanity, think otherwise. "By the middle of the century, one in three people on the planet will be living in inadequate, often illegal housing," says Cameron Sinclair. Millions of solutions are needed to meet people’s need and they should be shared all across the world, yet the formal architectural profession fails to do so.
The Open Architecture Network is an attempt to bring together architects, designers and builders to share their ideas across borders and continents. All participants in ONA are focused, who are there with the belief that their work serves a social good. The projects uploaded so far are interesting and range from completed projects to innovative competition entries like the system built from FedEx packaging by Takuya Onishi, REDEK Thailand.
The OAN says "We don't need to choose between architecture and revolution. What we need is an architectural revolution." Architecture for Humanity and its partners may have just given us all a tool to start one.
(Resource: http://www.treehugger.com)
Author: Jin Yanni
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