The finalists chosen by the jury and on display in the exhibition include:

Basak and Mark Altan Schirmer Oakland, CA

Deborah Gans and Matthew Jelacic
New York, NY

Masanari Hattori and Manabu Aihara Hoyko,
Japan

LDA Architects and Whitby Bird + Partners Mike Lawless (LDA Architects) and Mark Whitby Whitby Bird and Partners Newtimber Hassoks, UK and London, UK

Shigeki Maeda and Jun Yonekawa Paris, France and Tokyo, Japan

Takeshi Chiba and Ken Takeyama Tokyo, Japan

Notable entries:
Baharin Bin Mohammad
Melaka, Malaysia

Bang Dang
Garland, Texas

Blaser + Morath Christian W. Blaser and Harry Morath
Basel, Switzerland

Camilio Cerro
New York, NY

Lance Charles
Simi Valley, CA

Lydia Evans
Hyattsville, MD

FTL Happold Architecture and Engineering PC
New York, NY

Megan Brothers, Robert Lerner, Wayne Rendely, William Lenart, Ana Cajiao and Tamer Onay
New York, NY

Kevin Bismanis, Lisa Ditschun, Glenn Ross and Heather Tremain
Vancouver, Canada James Cornejo, Pablo Nealon and Gustavo Vazquez
New York, NY

Geoffrey Grummon
Hopewell, NJ
Morris/Sato Studio Michael Moris, Yoshiko Sato and Julia McCurdy
New York, NY

Keith Moskow
Boston, MA

Philip Pearce
London, UK

Additional entrants whose schemes were on display included:
Eugenio Aburto; K. Mrkonjic, M. Kordic and A. Stefanovic; Hashim Naqui - NCD Architects International; Russell D. Naylorand Heddie S. Chu , CA;

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solutions for the returning Kosovars, but other peoples whose homes have been similarly destroyed. The intent was that the competition would raise awareness of the needs of returning refugees and develop better temporary housing solutions for victims of war or natural disaster.

The jury was comprised of architects Steven Holl, Billie Tsien and Tod Williams, as well as relief experts Elise Storck of the U.S.

Agency for International Development (USAID) and Herb Sturz of the Open Society Institute.

Ten equally-ranked finalists and 20 notable entries were chosen. The finalists illustrated various aspects of transitional housing in a disaster setting. A number of entries represented very inexpensive solutions for short-term emergency shelter. Others explored temporary urban housing schemes. A number of submissions studied the potential for aggregations of temporary housing units. Low-tech building systems were proposed, as were alternative construction materials.

The organizers intend to build prototypes of selected premiated submissions. Proceeds from the competition are being donated to the relief efforts of War Child in Kosovo.

Sean Godsell Melbourne, Australia Peter Goldstein Architects Peter Goldstein, Doug Dover
Dallas, TX

Juan Huang and Ginny Huang Guandong,
P. R. China

I-Beam Design Susan Wines, Azin Valy and Cesare Birgnani
New York, NY

Sachie Isaka, Alan Burden, Ako Nagao and Yuji Tanabe
Tokyo, Japan

Keenen/Riley John Keenen, Steven Chang, Jan Greben and Nathan McCrae
New York, NY

Charlotte Lardinois and Thomas Wuetrich
New York, NY

Raffi Tomassian and Mintcho Petkov; Diego Trolliet; Savage + Dodd Architects; Wolfgang Stockinger.


The exhibition goes on to the Royal Institute of British Architects In London (December 9 - January 27), the French Institute of Architects in Paris (December 9-January 9), the U.A.R. Gallery in Bucharest (February 2000) and then returns to the U.S. to the U.S.A.I.D. headquarters in Washington, DC (April 2000).

For more information go to www.architectureforhumanity.com.

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