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 The Habitat Unit is prize winner in a competition on sustainable building design hold by the "Sto Foundation"
The prize amounts to Euro 10,000 and is awarded to the project "Life -Cycle in Buildings – Workshop for the reconstruction with reclaimed building materials in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, after the earthquake on January 12, 2010". The project was initiated and led by academic staff member Renato d'Alençon Castrillón M.Arch.
 Details about the competition (in German)...
New Book: Bettina Bauerfeind, Josefine Fokdal (Eds.): "Bridging Urbanities. Reflections on Urban Design in Shanghai and Berlin"
Habitat International Series Vol. 17, Münster 2011: LIT. ISBN 978-3-643-90131-6
Urban Design, as it is taught and practiced today, is more than designing cities. It is about understanding processes and mechanism influencing the city and its inhabitants. This publication reflects topics emerging from the Dual Urban Design Master Program carried out by the TU Berlin and the CAUP of Tongji University Shanghai. It shares results, insights, positions, and questions from discussions on urban design in the past five years.
160 pages. Available in bookshops or at the Habitat Unit.
Book presentation on 29 September ...
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A student team, guided by Renato d'Alençon won the Haiti Ideas Challenge held by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA), the United States' Agency for International Development (USAID), and Howard University's School of Architecture and Design.
The challenge asked students and emerging professionals in the design disciplines of architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning, among others, to design permanent solutions to rebuild the infrastructure, cities, neighborhoods and structures affected by the 2010 earthquake.
Dual Masters Program in Urban Design in cooperation with the Tongji
University Shanghai
Application deadline for the program starting in October 2012: 15 July, 2012
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