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On Site review issue 6 2001 publisher Field Notes Press editor Stephanie White contributors Aumer Assaff Marc Bertrand Jim Dodson Brian Dyson Ward Eagen Murray Gallant Patrick Harrop Orianne Johnson Andrew King Myron Nebozuk Tonkao Panin John Peterson Darrel Ronald Angela Silver David Spearing Tom Strickland Christina Symons David Tsai Jennifer Uegama Andrew Vernooy Antonio Zedda design & production Black Dog Running Syntax Media Services printer Makeda Press, Calgary

T his issue, started last fall, looks in various ways at architectures of humanity and at buildings involved in political change. Although this might seem a bit contradictory, it is a response to how the world has changed recently in its descent into more war, more hatred, more disaster and tragedy. Can architecture reinforce what is positive in the human spirit? This is our question. There are images of great beauty here, and provoctive ideas about what buildings do in this unstable world of ours.

Stephanie White, editor

from Architecture for Humanity’s newsletter—

W e have recently been concentrating on building our subscription list and have been rewarded by subscriptions from architects and designers, landscape architects and engineers from places as diverse as Penticton BC and Yellowknife; Québec and Toronto. This is most gratifying and we thank you all. If anyone you know would like to subscribe, drop a line to <editor@onsitereview.ca> and we will send on a subscription package. Rates are in the masthead, left. In Canada only add gst, for the United States these rates are in USdollars. The discrepancy in the exchange rate covers the exorbitant postage to anywhere outside Canada. I am pleased to announce that in the spring we will be launching a new competition. Much like our last venture it will also be an open international competition dealing with a global humanitarian disaster. An advisory board and jury is currently being formed and the design criteria almost complete. To receive this newsletter contact Cameron Sinclair at <csinclair@architectureforhumanity.org> or www.architectureforhumanity.org A rchitecture for Humanity is a volunteer not for profit organization set up to promote architecture and design to seek solutions to social and humanitarian issues. Its first venture, The Transitional Housing Competition , dealt with housing returning refugees in Kosovo after the end of the Balkan conflict in 1999. An exhibition of the 10 finalists and 30 selected designs traveled to London, Paris, New York and Venice. Two full-size prototypes have been built and two more are currently in development. This competition and its exhibition helped in part to raise almost $100,000. These funds were used in housing and feeding Kosovar refugees in the spring of 2000 and to build educational and medical facilities in over 5 countries including Bosnia, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

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