INTERVIEW: We Talk to Architecture for Humanity’s Co-Founder Kate Stohr

Not only does <a href="http://architectureforhumanity.org/">Architecture for Humanity</a> improve people's lives through architecture and design, but they have time to write books about it. Only six years after their <a href="http://inhabitat.com/design-like-you-give-a-damn/">first book</a> comes <a href="http://designlikeyougiveadamn.architectureforhumanity.org/" target="_blank">Design Like You Give A Damn [2]: Building Change From the Ground Up</a>, a second work which chronicles over 100 projects from around the world that address issues such as disaster reconstruction, shelter, education, and the basic needs of communities. Edited by the amazing team at Architecture for Humanity and published by Abrams, DLYGAD[2] goes more into detail about how each project came about and provides an informative source from which communities can learn to accomplish their own projects just the same. Recently we caught up with <a href="http://architectureforhumanity.org/about/people#Kate" target="_blank">Kate Stohr</a>, co-founder of <a href="http://architectureforhumanity.org/" target="_blank">Architecture for Humanity</a>, to find out more about this second book and the things she learned while working on it. PLUS, <a href="http://inhabitat.com/interview-giveaway-we-talk-to-architecture-for-humanity-about-their-new-book-design-like-you-give-a-damn-2/">we're giving away a copy</a>, so read on to hear Kate's answers and <a href="http://inhabitat.com/interview-giveaway-we-talk-to-architecture-for-humanity-about-their-new-book-design-like-you-give-a-damn-2/">learn how</a> you can win a book of your own!

Milad Haghnejad, from the design team, stands inside a completed bamboo shelter. Bundles of rice stems are tied to bamboo stalks on the exterior for climate control.

The siding of the Soe Ker Tie Hias (Butterfly Houses) features a local technique of weaving bamboo.

The 10x10 houses in Freedom Park, Mitchell Plains, Cape Town, South Africa.

The ZEROW House on the National Mall.

Once an unused, unsafe space, the new Urban Plaza under the bridge hosts a Media Garden and is a vibrant neighborhood gathering space.

Innovative, reused shipping containers create the structure.

The Bridge School connects the banks of a small river. The round building in the background is a tulou, a 400–year–old fortress.

Colorful painted rays decorate the exteriors of 34 houses in the hillside slum Praça Cantão in the center of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Artists Jeroen Koolhaas and Dre Urhahn (Haas&amp;Haan) enlisted locals to help create the artwork spanning 7000 square meters.