Migration Pattern Process

Within the international community architects are regularly typecast as exporters of predetermined solutions, rarely given the opportunity to respond appropriately, sensitively and effectively to specific and real emergencies. At the core of any impact are people like you and I; their welfare and successful healing creates a catalyst for the community to rebuild lives and esteem. Since 2007, Diploma Unit 7 at the Architectural Association in London, led by Simon Beames and Kenneth Fraser, has been researching the philosophical, social, political, economic and technical response to long-term humanitarian relief and the resocialisation of displaced people and damaged communities in conditions of extreme hardship. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.