Architecture for Humanity UK

 AfH UK is helping Crisis again with their Open Crisis Centres this Christmas time.

We are looking for volunteers: job descriptions are in the Crisis Open Christmas project 2007 AfHUK volunteer roles download and there’s a start-up meeting on 8th November which is now at Mind, Body and Spirit Room, 3rd floor, Crisis, 66 Commercial Street, London E1 6LT.  Nearest tube Liverpool Street, close to Spitalfields Market at 7:30pm. (please note this is a change from the original venue).

Please RSVP to info@afhuk.org before the meeting so we have an idea of numbers.

13 November, 7PM

Henry Fletcher, Architect

Building Centre - 26 Store Street, off Tottenham Court Rd,  WC1E 7BT

november_07_lecture1.pdf

Henry Fletcher is an architect based in London. He has worked on a variety of technical responses to construction related challenges in low income countries. He will consider two long term construction-based development projects:

Programme Construction Sans Bois in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger (Development Workshop – http:www.dwf.org) and the Building and Construction Improvement Programme in the Northern Areas of Pakistan (Aga Khan Planning and Building Services Pakistan – http://www.akdn.org/agency/akpbs.html)

By drawing comparisons between the styles of intervention and economic challenges faced by these programmes in very different environments Henry Fletcher will show that technology alone will not solve problems of the built environment; a sensitivity to cultural and socioeconomic issues is critical.

Tickets – £5 at the door.  Reservation in advance is recommended at info@afhuk.org