ARCHITECTURE AS SERVICE

AUP0481 Arquitetura Humanitária

Páginas 220 a 229 “Arquitecture as Service” de Ian Davis

Letícia da Silva S. B. de Jesus 8960674

IAN DAVIS
British Architect, Ian has worked in Disaster Management continually since 1972.
He has been a senior advisor to various Governments and the United Nations, and has
extensive experience in research, consultancy, advocacy, higher education and mid-
career staff development and training.
He was a lecturer at Oxford Brookes University’s School of Architecture for 19 years.
He has written or edited over ninety papers and sixteen books on disaster related.

Ian was lead consultant for an Asian Development Bank Institute project in Tokyo on
'Risk Reduction in the Asia/ Pacific Region’; he was also the Technical Editor for
'Guidelines on Urban Risk, Integration of DRR into Government Sectors and Adaptation
to Climate Change' for the Asian Disaster Preparedness Centre in Bangkok.
The guidelines he edited in 1982 for the UN on 'Shelter after Disaster' were refreshed
and published by the IFRC in 2013.
INICIAÇÃO

“As newly qualified, naive

architects from many countries,
we argued endlessly within
these offices about the
abstractions of architectural
expression, declaring our
allegiances to favoured
members of the quartet of
form-givers: Wright, Mies,
Aalto or Corb. But I don't
recall a single discussion
concerning the needs of the
elusive occupants of
Goldfinger's concrete slab or
Yamasaki's shimmering
skyscrapper towers.”
 “My conditions in agreeing to
supervise your research are as
follows: you will agree to go to
the next major disaster,
wherever the that is, and
examine the way disaster
survivors manage their shelter
process, with your mouth
firmly shut, ears and eyes wide
open, and you will give me a
firm promise not to design
anythig ” Otto Koeningsberger
MOTIVAÇÃO
“After working as an architect
for a while I became
disappointed in the way that
the profession was working
only for privileged people, rich
people, corporations. […] I was
a little bit disappointed that we,
as architects, were not working
for society.”
Shigeru Ban

Paper Church (1995-2005)

Shigeru Ban
Kobe, Japão
INTEGRAÇÃO

“An effective reconstruction

programme can meet all these
needs in a joined-up manner.
Physical bulding can assist the
psycho-social recovery of
participatins survivors, create
livelihoods and boost the local
economy, and the materias
beeing selected for shelter can
of course support the
environmental recovery.”
Paul Pholeros

Healthabitat project
Papua, Nova Guiné
ARCHITECTURE AS A SERVICE
“My involvement in
humanitarian work is not
because os a feeling os
obligation. It is a natural
response to help someone in
distress; responsibility is not
“I felt I was getting in touch
just about a sense of duty.”
with architecture as its purest,
Shigeru Ban
most honest level. […] I felt I
finally understood what
architecture is supposed to be
about. I understood what a
house was – was safety, it was
security, it was peace, health
care, and the mark of just
society.”
Eric Ceasal
“I also wonder about the
colletive architecture
community, do we have joined-
up things to say? [...] [when the
modern movement was being
formulated] architects were highly
political, and mobilized
themselves to have something to
say about housing and cities.
Where is this platform now in an
era of information and
communication?”
Maggie Stephenson, member of
the UN-Habitat team in Haiti
 Bibliografia

Vídeos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2-I3WsD024 Ian

Ian Davis talks DAVIS “Reflections of 45 years in disaster risk
management”

https://vimeo.com/23018842
Ian DAVIS “Disasters and the role of the built
environment”

Biografia http://lytle-associates.com/people/ian-davis/
Ian Davis

Imagens http://www.archdaily.com/489255/the-humanitarian-wo
rks-of-shigeru-ban

http://healthabitat.com/healthy-living-projects/australia

http://architecture.brookes.ac.uk/staff/iandavis.html