She Entrepuneures 2016

Leadership Programmes ::: Swedish Institute ::: She Entrepreneurs 2016

"She Entrepreneurs is a leadership programme for young emerging women social entrepreneurs in the Middle East, North Africa and Sweden. The programme aims to give the participants innovative tools for sustainable change while seeking to create an active network of women changemakers.

She Entrepreneurs runs for one year, with participants meeting for ten days in Sweden and one week in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. In between the modules, the participants work on their own initiative locally, coached by group mentors over digital platforms.

The participants are social entrepreneurs from Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Syria, Tunisia, Palestine, Yemen and Sweden who address social challenges and strive for positive social change through initiatives based on entrepreneurial principles. During the programme participants are provided with inspiration, knowledge and tools to develop a business idea for sustainable change that they have already started working on in their country or region. Through the programme, participants are also offered the opportunity to meet leading social and business entrepreneurs as well as become a part of an active network of women social entrepreneurs that supports personal and professional development.

The call for applications for She Entrepreneurs 2016 is currently open! The deadline for applying is 8 October 2015 at midnight (Central European Time Zone). "

She Entrepreneurs 2011 from Swedish Institute on Vimeo.


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7 essential MOOCs for budding social entrepreneurs

http://mashable.com/2014/12/14/moocs-social-entrepreneurs/#MPUuyoSesmqp

Starting a business to make the world a better place is a worthy and even fashionable idea. But what does creating a social enterprise really entail, and what skills should you have under your belt before you jump in?

Aspiring social entrepreneurs can find comfort and knowledge in MOOCs, or massive open online courses. Platforms such as Coursera, Udacity and Udemy feature a number of low-cost classes taught by expert faculty in socent and related fields.

SEE ALSO: 5 Chrome extensions that make charity effortless

From using social media for social good to HTML programming geared specifically toward entrepreneurs, here are seven MOOCs you should look into before launching a socially conscious company.

1. Social Entrepreneurship: A Crash Course

Platform: Udemy
Price: $25

This MOOC is perfect for beginners looking to dip their toes into the social enterprise space. Taught by Jessica Lax, content developer for social impact at School for Change, Social Entrepreneurship: A Crash Course covers five essential topics: hybrid organizations, earned revenue, impact capital, impact measurement and human-centered design.

You can work at your own pace through more than an hour of video content and slides.

2. Social Media for Social Change

Platform: Udemy
Price: $19

Whether or not your social enterprise idea deals directly with social media, maintaining an online presence is imperative for any business worth its salt. This course addresses key social media strategies for social change, and covers examples of successful campaigns.

The MOOC was designed specifically as a skills-building tool for social entrepreneurs "to address old issues with new tactics for increased results."

3. Programming for Entrepreneurs

Platform: Udemy
Price: Free

Basic coding is a skill everyone needs to have — even schools across the world are adopting it into their curricula. Whether you're looking to build a simple website for your social enterprise or you just want a better understanding of development as it pertains to business, this is the MOOC for you.

Programming for Entrepreneurs teaches rudimentary HTML and CSS programming languages and development concepts, so you can walk away with tangible, interactive prototypes of your business idea. There are 28 lectures, with more than two hours of content.

4. How to Change the World

Platform: Coursera
Price: Free

This MOOC focuses on creative ideas from well-known entrepreneurs, writers, academics and political leaders to discuss how innovation and technology can address the world's most pressing issues. Despite the audacious title, the class hones in on specific units: Poverty and Philanthropy; Climate Change and Sustainability; Women, Education and Social Change; and Social Networks, Education and Activism.

As of this writing, the class is in the middle of its current course of study (until Dec. 29), but you can join the watchlist to see when the next session will take place.

Disclosure: How to Change the World was developed between Wesleyan University and the 92Y, in conjunction with Mashable's Social Good Summit in 2013.

5. How to Build a Startup

Platform: Udacity
Price: Free

Silicon Valley entrepreneur Steve Blank, who also teaches at Stanford, UC Berkeley and Columbia, instructs this course on the key steps needed to build a startup. The focus of the MOOC is the needs of the customer — the product, how to deliver it and how to engage your target audience.

While there may not be a specific "customer" for your social enterprise, How to Build a Startup will teach you how to identify key resources, partners, distribution channels and overall costs.

As of this writing, the class is in the middle of its current course of study (until Dec. 29), but you can join the watchlist to see when the next session will take place.

6. Social Entrepreneurship

Platform: Coursera
Price: Free (Open Track)

This MOOC comes to you courtesy of the Social Impact initiative at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business. Think of it as the next step after the socent crash course listed above. Wharton's course takes a deeper dive into solution design, concept testing, performance measurement, building for scale and more.

You can choose the free "Open Track," in which assignments are based on real-world examples of social enterprises, or the "Signature Track," in which assignments will relate to the specific social enterprise you'd like to pursue.

As of this writing, the class isn't in session, but you can join the watchlist to see when it starts up again.

7. Foundations of Business Strategy

Platform: Coursera
Price: Free

Strategy is important for any entrepreneur, whether you're creating a nonprofit or for-profit company. The University of Virginia's Foundations of Business Strategy teaches strategic analysis, the impact of competitive markets and how to create value through cases discussions of specific businesses.

The final project has each student select one organization through online forums, using the skills the course has taught him and her to provide a competitive analysis.

The course just wrapped up its most recent session on Nov. 23, but you can join the watchlist to see when the next session takes place.

ArchiCulture

Archiculture Official Trailer from arbuckle industries on Vimeo.
Logline
Archiculture examines the current and future state of studio-based, design education.

Synopsis
Archiculture takes a thoughtful, yet critical look at the architectural studio. The film offers a unique glimpse into the world of studio-based, design education through the eyes of a group of students finishing their final design projects. Interviews with leading professionals, historians and educators help create crucial dialog around the key issues faced by this unique teaching methodology.

Outline
1. Intro - Welcome to archiCULTURE
2. Design Education - So What Exactly is Design Education?
3. Studio Culture - Meet Your New Family
4. Critique - Desk Crits, Pin Ups, Juries O’ My!
5. Best Architects - Making it as an Architect
6. School vs. Practice - Two Worlds Collide
7. Starchitecture - The Plague of the Starchitect
8. New generation - The Designers of Tomorrow
9. The Future - I See Myself...

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How forgotten Spanish masons' tiles transformed American cities

Article: How forgotten Spanish masons' tiles transformed American cities

Throughout New York City and beyond, the largely forgotten Guastavinos built some of America'€™s greatest public spaces

April 1, 2014 9:00AM ET

by Kevin Dubouis @KevinDubouis  & Ryan Loughlin

Have you ever noticed the vaulted tile ceilings of the Oyster Bar inside the Grand Central Terminal? Have you ever walked under the polychrome tile arches and vaults of the Elephant House of the Bronx Zoo?

The Museum of the City of New York is revealing a secret kept for decades behind many iconic American public buildings.

At least 200 of New York’s most prominent Beaux-Arts landmarks were built more than a century ago by a father-son team of masons from Spain.

Not only did Rafael Guastavino Sr. and his son (also named Rafael) help build some of the nation’s most iconic structures between 1881 and 1962, they also revolutionized American architectural design and construction with their tile-vaulting system.

Once you identify some of their architectural chef-d’oeuvres, you’ll start seeing them all over.

Their ceilings grace landmarks around the country from the Nebraska State Capitol to the dome of the Smithsonian’s Natural History Museum in Washington, D.C. They even ornament ordinary buildings. One of them is the Engine No. 3, a small brick firehouse built in 1916 not far from the U.S. Capitol.

Although they helped build more than 1,000 buildings in 11 countries, the name Guastavino remained largely unknown.

In an effort to shed light on the story of these avant-gardist architects, the Museum of the City of New York has just opened the exhibition “Palaces for the People: Guastavino and America’s Great Public Spaces,” running through Sept. 7.

Originally curated by John Ochsendorf, a 2008 MacArthur Fellow and professor in architecture at MIT, the exhibition first opened in 2012 in Boston. It was the result of a seven-year cooperation between Ochsendorf’s team and the city’s public library. Last year, the exhibition moved to the National Building Museum in Washington.

The latest exhibit is substantially expanded to highlight some 20 key Guastavino spaces in New York’s five boroughs.

Kindly check Full original Article http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/america-tonight/articles/2014/3/28/slideshow-forgottenspanishmasonsatilestransformedamericaascities.html

Ila Souria II

Ila Souria II

selected Videos from the second Ila Souria conference

Ila Souria I

Ila Souria I
Selected Videos of Ila Souria First Conference on the Material & Immaterial Re/Construction

مشاريع عمارة و يوطوبيات، من أجل وضع برنامج تعليمي متحرر و ثائر...
كلود يعقوب
مهندس معماري، مدرس و باحث، مختبر سيتو-باراغراف Citu-Paragraphe ، جامعة باريس ٨

ملخص : ما الذي سننقله لأجيال المستقبل من المصممين المتدربين، الذين سيبنون غداً سوريا جديدة، و مختلفة ؟ كيف و ماذا سننقل لهم من أجل إعادة تأسيس و ترميم المدينة/الدولة (بمعناها اليوناني القديم Polis) حول القيم الثورية الحالية و المستقبلية ؟ هذه المدينة/الدولة (Polis) التي تُذكِّرنا، بجانبيها السياسي و المدني، ببعض "اليوطوبيات التي أصبحت واقعاً"، إن كان ذلك في الزمن الحالي المباشر أو في المستقبل الشامل. مما يشكل تساؤلاً حيوياً له علاقة بما هو "مشترك"، و الذي يعني الجميع و في نفس الوقت. و بالتالي، لم نعد فقط بحاجة لما هو "موجود بشكل مسبق" و إنما المقدرة على "العمل معاً" هي التي تفرض نفسها بهدف بناء مساحات غير مادية و مادية. و بهذا تُمثِّل اليوطوبيات فعلاً إنسانياً عادلاً و مُبرَّراً. مخرج ٌمناسب من الأزمة، يحقق نوعاً من التوازن في العالم غير المستقر و المضطرب الذي نعيش فيه، كما أنها جواب واضح على التساؤل الذي تتطرحه العمارة و المعماري، و حل بديل يجمع ما بين الرؤية و الواقعية و القضايا الحيوية لمجتمع تنقصه المساواة، و المشاركة و القيم الأخلاقية. ستكون مهمتنا تعريف الأجيال الجديدة السورية (من طلاب، و أساتذة، و سكان مدنيين)، و عن طريق "تربية الحرية"، بيوطوبيات الماضي التي شكلت واقع اليوم. و بهذا نستطيع معاً رسم يوطوبيات اليوم التي من شأنها أن تمثل واقع الغد...
الكلمات الرئيسية : العمارة ؛ المصمم المتدرب ؛ علم التربية ؛ الثورة ؛ يوطوبيا .

ما هي الممارسات المرتبطة بإعادة الإعمار؟
إيرين لابيري
مهندسة معمارية

ملخص : كيف لنا أن نتصرف إزاء الكارثة عندما يسقط النظام؟ بهدف رسم خطوط مستقبلية فيما يخص المدن و الإسكان و المساحات بشكل عام، يبدو لنا أن التحضيرات المسبقة ستكون : - تحليل المشاريع و الإنجازات التي سبقت الثورة (فيما يخص عملية صياغتها، و من ناحية الشكل و المواصفات)، - تحليل المنطق المُتبع من قبل جيش النظام في قصف و تدمير المناطق المدنية و الأحكام "القانونية" المرتبطة بذلك، - تأثير التوزع العمراني على نمو الثورة، - التفكير المبدئي بالمعايير التي يجب وضعها، بحيث أن تخدم و تؤطر المشاريع المستقبلية التي ستمثل، لدى اعتمادها، الأسس التي سيمكن لصانعي القرار و المواطنين الاعتماد عليها. تهدف هذه المداخلة إلى البدء بهذا العمل، بالاعتماد خصوصاً على دمشق كمثال.

الكلمات الرئيسية : المدينة ؛ إلغاء ما كان قائم ؛ الحدود ؛ الممارسات ؛ المزيج

rest of the Videos in Arabic: http://www.ilasouria.org/ar/videos/

Curated List on Architecture & UPlanning |  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmkdbSmeocC-8fmkDX0zJ42BL5ssUGDIG 

Light Cube

Innovations Pass-Borders

Innovations Across Borders 
Original (At) http://innovationacrossborders.marsdd.com/videos/
Session I : International Innovation as a Driver of Prosperity for Global SMEs
Welcoming Remarks - Day 1 - Innovation Across Borders from MaRS Discovery District on Vimeo.

Jean-Jaques Yarmoff - Session 1 - Innovation Across Borders from MaRS Discovery District on Vimeo.


Natalie Dakers - Session 1 - Innovation Across Borders from MaRS Discovery District on Vimeo.

Sir Terry Matthews - Session 1 - Innovation Across Borders from MaRS Discovery District on Vimeo.

John Ruffolo - Session 1 - Innovation Across Borders from MaRS Discovery District on Vimeo.



Session II :  Government Policies and Programs to Stimulate Innovation in Global SMEs
Conrad Von Igel - Session 2 - Innovation Across Borders from MaRS Discovery District on Vimeo.

Emad Rizkalla - Session 2 - Innovation Across Borders from MaRS Discovery District on Vimeo.

George Ross - Session 2 - Innovation Across Borders from MaRS Discovery District on Vimeo.

Kevin Lynch - Session 2 - Innovation Across Borders from MaRS Discovery District on Vimeo.


Session III :  Global Innovation Support Systems for SMEs
Lars-Gunnar Larsson - Session 3 - Innovation Across Borders from MaRS Discovery District on Vimeo.

Peter Westerstrahle - Session 3 - Innovation Across Borders from MaRS Discovery District on Vimeo.


Tony Rahilly - Session 3- Innovation Across Borders from MaRS Discovery District on Vimeo.

Monica Salazar - Session 3 - Innovation Across Borders from MaRS Discovery District on Vimeo.

Session IV : Innovation and Trade in Emerging and Developing Countries

Session V : Open Innovation – Opportunities and Risks of IP Transfer Across Borders

Session VI : Cross-Cultural Competencies – Essential Skills for International Collaboration 

Session VII : Gaining and Defining Complementary Advantages for Innovation Partners

Session VIII : Operationalizing Co-innovation Programs for SMEs

Session VX : Global Business Innovation by SMEs – The OECD Perspective 


Session X : Global Business Innovation by SMEs – Thinking Outside the Box 

Qamar Rizvi - Session 10 - Innovation Across Borders from MaRS Discovery District on Vimeo.

Innovation Across Borders - Session 10 (intro) - qamar rizvi from MaRS Discovery District

Jacqueline Shan - Session 10 - Innovation Across Borders from MaRS Discovery District on Vimeo.

Panel Discussion - Session 10 - Innovation Across Borders from MaRS Discovery District on Vimeo.

Day 2 Wrap-up and Closing Remarks - Innovation Across Borders from MaRS Discovery District on Vimeo.
All Talks are available (at) http://innovationacrossborders.marsdd.com/videos/

In the memory of ...

This post is dedicated to the 1977 film Powers of Ten by Charles and Ray Eames on their +24H Anniversary, the film is about the scale of things within our vast universe and it's a recommendation to anyone..
sure with Google-Earth most would be familiar with the concept still it's worth watching if you Haven't done so already... 

 
For a better experience Kindly Visit http://www.powersof10.com/

more on the film below by Marlow on http://blog.powersof10.com/

Today is Powers of Ten Day! The iconic Eames film, Powers of Ten, is about “the relative size of things in the universe and the effect of adding another zero.” The film is technically ingenious while also beautiful and educational—adjectives that often describe Charles and Ray’s work, whether a house, chair, photograph, toy or exhibition.

The influences of Powers of Ten can be seen in movies such as Men in Black and television shows such as The Simpsons; it can also be considered a precursor to now common-place technologies and service applications like Google Maps. But how else does the film impact us today? How can contemplating the relative size of things in the universe pertain to our daily lives?

For me, personally, Powers of Ten serves as a reality check. Problems that seemed insurmountable before watching it suddenly feel less stressful. Long before I knew about Charles and Ray’s film, I could generate a similar effect by climbing to a higher altitude. Whether standing at the summit of Pikes Peak or peering down from the Eiffel Tower (10⁺⁰³ feet), I was always struck by the emotional, even existential, impact of my new perspective. Trees were dwarfed, trucks crawled and people looked like specks of lint across a vast, textured blanket.

Everything appeared so small as to seem inconsequential, which seemed to indicate that—from a certain height, vantage point and powers of ten—my problems and I were too. Perhaps this thought should have been panic inducing, but I found it comforting. Regardless of the emotion conjured up, the point is that changing my view prompted questions about my place in the universe.

The beauty of watching Powers of Ten is that the film transports viewers well beyond 10⁺⁰³ feet above ground. Within a span of nine minutes, it zooms out to the farthest edge of the known universe and reels in to the inner depths of a carbon atom. I consider the vast array of perspectives an elegant reminder to remove my blinders and view the world from more than one lens. This might mean taking a step forward or a step back, looking from behind or even flipping the problem on its metaphorical head. Charles and Ray’s film offers many lessons, but one of the biggest is that, in reframing the the problem, new solutions inevitably emerge.

As we celebrate Powers of Ten Day, let us know how Charles and Ray’s film has impacted you, and in what ways you employ powers-of-ten thinking in your own life.

Revitalisation of Historic Cities

Revitalisation of Historic Cities
#AKAA #AKDN

Revitalisation of Birzeit Historic Centre
Location: Birzeit, Palestine (West Asia)
Architect: Riwaq - Centre for Architectural Conservation, Ramallah, Palestine
Client: Birzeit Municipality
Completed: 2009 ongoing
Design: 2007-2011

Toyo Ito :: 2013 Laureate

http://www.pritzkerprize.com/2013/announcement

Biography

Toyo Ito was born on June 1, 1941 in Keijo (Seoul), Korea (Japanese). His father was a business man with a special interest in the early ceramic ware of the Yi Dynasty of Korea and Japanese style paintings. He also was a sports fan of baseball and golf. In 1943, Ito, his mother, and his two elder sisters moved back to Japan. Two years later, his father returned to Japan as well, and they all lived in his father’s hometown of Shimosuwa-machi in Nagano Prefecture. His father died in 1953, when he was 12. After that the rest of family operated a miso (bean paste) making factory. At present, all but one sister who is three years older than Ito, have died.
Ito established his own architecture office in 1971, and the following year he married. His wife died in 2010. They had one daughter who is now 40 and is editing Vogue Nippon.
In his youth, Ito admits to not having a great interest in architecture. There were several early influences however. His grandfather was a lumber dealer, and his father liked to draw plans for his friends’ houses. When Ito was a freshman in high school, his mother asked the early Modernist architect, Yoshinobu Ashihara, who had just returned to Japan from the U.S. where he worked at Marcel Breuer’s office, to design their home in Tokyo.
He was in the third grade of junior high school when he moved to Tokyo and went to Hibiya High School. At the time, he never dreamed he would become an architect—his passion was baseball. It was while attending the University of Tokyo that architecture became his main interest. For his undergraduate diploma design, he submitted a proposal for the reconstruction of Ueno Park, which won the top prize of the University of Tokyo.
Toyo Ito began working in the firm of Kiyonori Kikutake & Associates after he graduated from Tokyo University’s Department of Architecture in 1965. By 1971, he was ready to start his own studio in Tokyo, and named it Urban Robot (Urbot). In 1979, he changed the name to Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects.
He has received numerous international awards, including in 2010, the 22nd Praemium Imperiale in Honor of Prince Takamatsu; in 2006, The Royal Institute of British Architects’ Royal Gold Medal; and in 2002, the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement for the 8th Venice Biennale International Exhibition. All of his honors are listed in the fact summary of this media kit. He has been a guest professor at the University of Tokyo, Columbia University, the University of California, Los Angeles, Kyoto University, Tama Art University, and in the spring semester of 2012, he hosted an overseas studio for Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, the first in Asia.
His works have been the subject of museum exhibitions in England, Denmark, the United States, France, Italy, Chile, Taiwan, Belgium, and numerous cities in Japan. Publications by and about him have appeared in all of those countries and more. He holds Honorary Fellowships in the American Institute of Architects, Royal Institute of British Architects, the Architecture Institute of Japan, the Tokyo Society of Architects and Building Engineers, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
One of his first projects in 1971 was a home in a suburb of Tokyo. Called “Aluminum House,” the structure consisted of wooden frame completely covered in aluminum. Most of his early works were residences. In 1976, he produced a home for his sister, who had recently lost her husband. The house was called “White U” and generated a great deal of interest in Ito’s works. It was demolished in 1997. Of most of his work in the 1980’s, Ito explains that he was seeking to erase conventional meaning from his works through minimalist tactics, developing lightness in architecture that resembles air and wind.
He calls the Sendai Mediatheque, completed in 2001 in Sendai City, Miyagi, Japan, one of the high points of his career. In the Phaidon book, Toyo Ito, he explains, “The Mediatheque differs from conventional public buildings in many ways. While the building principally functions as a library and art gallery, the administration has actively worked to relax divisions between diverse programs, removing fixed barriers between various media to progressively evoke an image of how cultural facilities should be from now on. This openness is the direct result of its simple structure, consisting of flat concrete slabs (which are honey-comb steel plates with concrete) penetrated by 13 tubes. Walls on each floor are kept to an absolute minimum, allowing the various functions to be freely distributed throughout the open areas between the tubes.“
In delivering the Kenneth Kassler lecture at Princeton University in 2009, Ito explained his general thoughts on architecture:
“The natural world is extremely complicated and variable, and its systems are fluid – it is built on a fluid world. In contrast to this, architecture has always tried to establish a more stable system. To be very simplistic, one could say that the system of the grid was established in the twentieth century. This system became popular throughout the world, as it allowed a huge amount of architecture to be built in a short period of time.
However, it also made the world’s cities homogenous. One might even say that it made the people living and working there homogenous too. In response to that, over the last ten years, by modifying the grid slightly I have been attempting to find a way of creating relationships that bring buildings closer to their surroundings and environment.” Ito amends that last thought to “their natural environment.”
In the fashionable Omotesando area of Tokyo, Ito designed a building in 2004 for TOD’S, an Italian shoe and handbag company, in which trees provided a source of inspiration. The Ito office provides its own description of the project:
“Trees are natural objects that stand by themselves, and their shape has an inherent structural rationality. The pattern of overlapping tree silhouettes also generates a rational flow of forces. Having adapted the branched tree diagram, the higher up the building, the thinner and more numerous the branches become, with a higher ration of openings. Similarly, the building unfolds as interior spaces with slightly different atmospheres relating to the various intended uses.
Rejecting the obvious distinctions between walls and opening, lines and planes, two- and three dimensions, transparency and opaqueness, this building is characterized by a distinctive type of abstractness. The tree silhouette creates a new image with a constant tension generated between the building’s symbolic concreteness and its abstractness. For this project, we (Ito and his staff) intended to create a building that through its architectural newness expresses both the vivid presence of a fashion brand and strength in the cityscape that will withstand the passage of time.”
After designing critically-acclaimed buildings like Sendai Mediatheque, Ito became an architect of international importance during the early-2000s leading to projects throughout Asia, Europe, North America and South America. Ito designed the Main Stadium for the 2009 World Games in Kaohsiung and the under-construction Taichung Metropolitan Opera House, both in Taiwan. In Europe, Ito and his firm renovated the façade of the Suites Avenue Apartments with striking stainless steel waves and, in 2002, designed the celebrated temporary Serpentine Pavilion Gallery in London’s Hyde Park. Other projects during this time include the White O residence in Marbella, Chile and the never-built University of California, Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive in California.
Perhaps most important to Ito, however, are the projects in his home country, made more pressing by the earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011. The disaster spurred Ito and a group of other Japanese architects to develop the concept of “Home-for-All” communal space for survivors. As Ito says in Toyo Ito - Forces of Nature published by Princeton Architectural Press:
“The relief centers offer no privacy and scarcely enough room to stretch out and sleep, while the hastily tacked up temporary housing units are little more than rows of empty shells: grim living conditions either way. Yet even under such conditions, people try to smile and make do…. They gather to share and communicate in extreme circumstances – a moving vision of community at its most basic. Likewise, what we see here are very origins of architecture, the minimal shaping of communal spaces.
An architect is someone who can make such spaces for meager meals show a little more humanity, make them a little more beautiful, a little more comfortable.”
For Ito, the fundamental tenets of modern architecture were called into question by “Home-for-All.” He adds, “In the modern period, architecture has been rated highest for its originality. As a result, the most primal themes—why a building is made and for whom—have been forgotten. A disaster zone, where everything is lost offers the opportunity for us to take a fresh look, from the ground up, at what architecture really is. ‘Home-for-all’ may consist of small buildings, but it calls to the fore the vital question of what form architecture should take in the modern era—even calling into question the most primal themes, the very meaning of architecture.”
The Pritzker Jury commented on Ito’s direct expression of his sense of social responsibility citing his work on “Home-for-All.”
Recently, Ito has also thought of his legacy, as apparent by the museum of architecture that bears his name on the small island of Omishima in the Seto Inland Sea. Also designed by Ito, the museum opened in 2011 and showcases his past projects as well as serving as a workshop for young architects. Two buildings comprise the complex, the main building “Steel Hut” and the nearby “Silver Hut,” which is a recreation of the architect’s former home in Tokyo, built in 1984.

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