Charities and Design: a Sampling of Resources

BOOKS:

Design Like You Give a Damn: Architectural Responses to Humanitarian Crises

Edited by Cameron Sinclair and Kate Stohr, co-founders of Architecture for Humanity, this book provides case studies of building projects designed by architects after natural disasters and in developing countries. Scheduled for release June 30.

Publisher: Metropolis Books, 61 West 23rd Street, Fourth Floor, New York, N.Y. 10010; (212) 627-9977; fax (212) 627-9988; http://www.metropolismag.com/cda/books.php; 336 pages; $35; ISBN 1-9330-4525-6.

Good Deeds, Good Design: Community Service Through Architecture

Edited by Bryan Bell, this book offers essays and case studies related to public-interest architecture.

Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press, 37 East Seventh Street, New York, N.Y. 10003; (212) 995-9620; fax (212) 995-9454; sales@papress.com; http://www.papress.com; 240 pages; $30; ISBN 1-5689-8391-3.

Good Neighbors: Affordable Family Housing

Written by Michael Pyatok, Tom Jones, and Willie Pettus, this book discusses the importance of good design in low-cost housing and provides examples. Out of print.

Publisher: The McGraw-Hill Companies; 268 pages; ISBN 0-07-032913-3.

ONLINE RESOURCES

The 1% Solution

(http://www.theonepercent.org)

This campaign, organized by Public Architecture, a nonprofit design organization in San Francisco, urges architects and their firms to pledge 1 percent of their working hours to pro bono projects.

Affordable Housing Design Advisor

(http://www.designadvisor.org) Run by the Center for Architecture and Building Science Research at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, this Web site offers advice and examples of how to incorporate good design in low-cost housing. Green Building Renovation
(http://building.cnt.org)

This Web site provides information about the Center for Neighborhood Technology’s renovation of its Chicago headquarters using environmentally friendly building practices.

KidBuilding

(http://www.kidbuilding.org)

Operated by Boys & Girls Clubs of America, this Web site helps local groups plan new building projects and provides photographs and examples of well-designed clubs.

Kresge Foundation: Green Building Initiative

(http://www.kresge.org/content/displaycontent.aspx?CID=7)

Run by the Kresge Foundation, in Troy, Mich., this Web site offers information on why nonprofit organizations should consider green building and provides case studies on environmentally friendly building projects.

“The Role of the Physical Environment in the Hospital of the 21st Century: A Once-in-a-Lifetime Opportunity”

(http://www.healthdesign.org/research/reports/physical_environ.php)

Published by the Center for Health Design, in Concord, Calif., this 2004 paper discusses more than 600 studies that document the relationship between health-care environments and how quickly patients heal.

ORGANIZATIONS

Association for Community Design

(http://www.communitydesign.org)

The Association for Community Design is a membership organization for architects and nonprofit design organizations that are interested in public-service architecture.

American Institute of Architects

(http://www.aia.org/components_map)

The American Institute of Architects has more than 300 local chapters, many of which can help link charities with nearby architects.