Many feel that sitting at a screen sweating over the design of handrail details for the next cute downtown boutique hotel just doesn't make sense when more than 150,000 people have lost their lives, more than five million people have been made homeless and whole towns have been swept away. |
Most of the emails were from students and, particularly, young architects who want to do something to help, but have no idea what they can contribute. |
So this is really trying to get designers to think very differently about how you create structures to help people. |
We have this wealth of knowledge and talent as designers to come up with innovative ideas. And essentially what we do is problem solve. |