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Architects Seek Safer Schools
Responding to tragic school shootings and other acts of teen violence, architects are looking for ways to make school buildings safer.

Emergency Relief Organizations For Building and Reconstruction
When earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, and other horrific disasters strike, architects and designers are among the first to offer emergency aid. The non-profit agencies listed here are remarkable for their ability to provide desperately needed construction materials and design skills.

Architecture for Humanity : Designing Emergency Shelters
A firm in France issued a challenge: Design emergency shelters for a war-torn country.

About Habitat for Humanity
Habitat for Humanity has helped to build more than 80,000 houses around the world providing safe, affordable shelter to more than 400,000 people. The houses are built by volunteers using donated materials. Then the houses are inexpensively sold to needy families. The organization earns no profit.

In the Words of Sir Clough Williams-Ellis
Famous quotations from architect and conservationist Sir Clough Williams-Ellis, designer of Portmeirion, Wales.