Topic: Architecture for Humanity

Innovative Giving: The Open Architecture Network

The Open Architecture Network is the first collaborative forum to provide access to architecture plans and blueprints online. The second entry in our six-part series on innovative giving.READ»

"Classroom of the Future" Finalists Are Cool Enough for School

Architecture for Humanity has just announced finalists in a competition to design classrooms in the developing world and beyond.READ»

Co-Create “Like You Give a Damn”

From Buenos Aires to Biloxi, architects anywhere can design emergency shelters for those who lost their homes in Sri Lanka. They may never meet in person or tour buildings they designed yet they can now see each other and their ...READ»

Design to Improve Life

Good things are happening in the world of design and innovation. One of the best is INDEX, a new world event for design and innovation to be held, like the Olympics, every four years; it is also an international network of designers, ...READ»

Teton Valley Community School: The Classroom of the Future?

This past July, we looked at the finalists for Architecture for Humanity and the Open Architecture Network's latest competition, which asked entrants to design the classroom of the future. It's a vague, open-ended challenge, and one ...READ»

Pop! Till You Drop

For a decade, Pop!Tech has brought together luminaries, wizards, writers, entrepreneurs, and other brainiacs to try to outhink the world's problems. This year's no different.READ»

No Gurus Allowed

Thirty big thinkers gather in Copenhagen to change the world with design.READ»

Watch Your Back Depp: Design Films Are On a Roll

A wave of design documentaries are unlikely crowd pleasers.READ»

Design with a Conscience: Columbia Team Wins Curry Stone Design Prize

Medillin, Colombia, was once known as the drug capital of the world. But thanks to a massive urban and architectural renewal project helmed by Sergio Farjado and Alejandro Echeverri, Medillin's former mayor and director of ...READ»

Three Ideas for Creating a Zero-Impact City Block in Dallas

How would you create a city block that was fully sustainable? A competition to redevelop an entire block of downtown Dallas asked urban planners to do just that, and the finalists have just been announced.READ»

Now: March 2008

What's happening this month: Shiny new airport terminals in London and Beijing take off; why baseball's first pitch is in Tokyo; and Austin's South by Southwest by the numbers.READ»

• Infographic: Numerology: SXSW
• The Journal-ist: In the Lead
• Open House: Just Plane Ambitious

Debating the Design Depression: Austerity vs Extravagance

Sure, the economy's on life support, and shelter magazines have been hung out to dry, but design is not dead yet. The tallest skyscraper on the planet is rocketing into the stratosphere over Dubai, and $600 plastic chairs are ...READ»

No Place Like Home

Two New York architects are using design to address pressing social challenges -- for the homeless, for war refugees, even for public-school kids. Here's their blueprint.READ»