Hypothesis [$300 = House]
Challenges of Housing Production for the Poorest in the Developing World Report on the 300 Dollar House Workshop, January 25-28 2012 at Dartmouth College By Andrew Wright “The Three Hundred Dollar House, you mean three hundred per square foot?” A friend’s incredulity summarizes the responses I heard to the title of a workshop at Dartmouth … Read more
Foreign Help? Well. Yes.
By Nora Mertens The company that I work for, Tonetti Associates Architects (TAA), has recently completed the design for a Family Health and Nutrition Center for GHESKIO (The Haitian Group for the Study of Kaposi’s Sarcoma and Opportunistic Infections) Clinic in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Our involvement in Haiti, in the wake of the destruction left by … Read more
GHESKIO Family Health and Nutrition Center, Haiti
We have successfully turned over all construction documents to the Haitian construction manager. Haitian contractors are currently bidding on the project. We are investigating stabilized earth as building materials.
Then And Again
By Andrew Wright Thanks to a Siren call at a flea market, I recently found myself with several dozen issues of ‘Pencil Points, A Journal of the Drafting Room’ dating from the nineteen thirties and forties. ‘Pencil Points’, as its subtitle indicates, focused on the toilers of the architectural firms. Its readers had aspirations no … Read more
A Photoblog, Port-au-Prince, Haiti
All photos below were taken on our recent 2-day visit to Port-au-Prince/Haiti. TAA is currently designing a Family Health and Nutrition Center for GHESKIO Clinic in the slums of Port-au-Prince. GHESKIO offers HIV, tuberculosis and cholera treatment free of charge to the poorest of Port-au-Prince’s population. While we are still finding it hard to adequately … Read more
Fort Ticonderoga: Past to Present
Tonetti Associates Architects designed the recent reconstruction of Fort Ticonderoga’s Le Magasin du Roi as the Mars Education Center, marking the largest capital project undertaken in the museum’s 95-year history. The original fort was built by the French between 1754 and 1757 during the Seven Years’ War, often referred to as the French and Indian … Read more
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