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historical association. season to premiere september 9. as we explore the modern era and edith roosevelt, michelle obama. >> the american institute of architects held its annual conference in denver, colorado with an address by cameron sinclair. he talked about his organization pops efforts to provide the links in projects for humanitarian crises. including efforts after the 2010 earthquake in haiti, the 2011 japanese phenom, and hurricane sandy. this is just over an hour. ♪ >> wow, first of all i would like to thank the entire area

for inviting me to come speak to you. at an eventthis yesterday, the last time i spoke it was in a side room and 25 people showed up. this is kind of overwhelming because we have tony 500. i would also like to say hello to people watching on c-span. you're probably used to political debates, which is like watching paint dry. toarchitects, when we get the point in the building when the paint is drying, that is exciting. we will diverge away from the political connotation and talk to him -- talk about communities. today i'm going to talk about our organization am a which matters a lot to me. it is about how architects see things. when you are in an area that has n by a natural disaster,

people see no hope. when architects go there, they see and opportunity to change. they see an opportunity to resurrect the community and find ways where we can live as community members. it is this value we have, that can transform a nation and transform a profession from when the designs buildings, which we are seen as, to one that transforms communities. so when we look at an environment, this is just in new jersey, an architect will have a look, they will say, this is a wetland area. area.e to reclaim this let implement some natural vegetation, put in some transportation, have a beautiful place where people can gather. this is what architecture brings to an area we often overlook. it is this value we need to hold true to ourselves. so today the question i want to

ask everybody, from within and from without the profession, what is the true value of architecture? i hope i'm able to answer that. 1999, it is amazing, we were talking last week, she was in my office, she is in the san francisco firm, she mentioned she had just been license, she finished architecture school. she mentioned, yes, i graduated high school at 12. that made me feel like, my goodness, the next generation is just going to go to the next level. there i was, and it i feel is funny to be in denver where a speech was made a number of years ago by a guy who said i was a skinny kid with a funny name and i was given an opportunity. i used to be a skinny kid.

i still have a funny name. but i came to america with an idea, a train. i grew up in a poor neighborhood in london. it is the area, not only did they invent the word hooliganism, they practiced it on a daily basis. i was five years old, i would run home and play with lego, i would try to reorganize the town to make it a place where people would feel good about living there. how can we create places? it was that the said i want to be an architect. so i find myself many years later in the united states or king for various -- working for of whatnd that value architecture can do to improve people possible absent community lives ands communities stuck with me. the first competition we did was for her returning refugees in kosovo.

the first person i called and i am a 23- said, year-old kid, i have this idea, what do you think? he thought i was crazy. enough, hundreds of architects said it might be crazy but we can make a difference. out then, we were running of a studio in new york. it was just a couple of volunteers. we had a dream architects could make a difference by inputting the creative and professional services. fast toward -- fast-forward 15 years, we are currently working in 27 countries, responding to natural disaster areas and areas of light and poverty. blight and poverty. haven a local level, we these local chapters. as you can see, we seem to be convention.e aia

we have a denver chapter, chicago chapter. all doing incredible work. 6800d with them are over professionals volunteering their time, representing the largest firm in the world, dedicated to making a difference in their communities. it is a magnificent body of work by these individuals. so our work has this global response and i will show much of that. historic is the local response. we have denver, afh denver. [applause] we had enough to party last night. last night.party there may be fewer than i hoped. what is amazing is they have not only designed incredible projects for communities in

need, they funded it themselves. they have done kick starter campaigns. there is one designer they came up with a crazy mustache necklace you can go in disguise. she raised $3000 to help people in need by making mustaches. right here in denver we have incredible designers giving back. our building, our headquarters is in san francisco. we have to practice what we preach, we are on the corner of of eight in san francisco. people see this as the heart of architecture for humanity. that is not the truth. the heart is its people. over 81 building professionals working around the world, hundreds of firms contributing, coming together in a multi- disciplinary team, providing design services. this is a very important point. this is not volunteer. this is not a friday built. this is taking the skills you

and bringing it to communities that have never imagined the idea of an architect, or an engineer coming to help. so to add on that, when you're giving opportunities to work and communities, you have an obligation to build. what makes architecture really incredible is we do not just a design solutions, we build them. when you build a solution, it is transformative. to thesetment communities is to create a change through the environment. we also have to think about the future and the present, different projects we did a couple of years ago, one was a 60 foot catamaran made out of 16,000 plastic bottles. like coke and pepsi. the reason we did that, one is but the ideaeness is, can we invent new materials out of waste product that can be

strong materials so we can use them as a positive, to get net zero. let create the waste we are creating and using it as a strong material. building research does. on the other end of the world, we are working in pakistan, one of the most dangerous areas in pakistan. flooding had displaced 3 million people. this is the power of the network. i got a phone call from the hunt in foundation thanking us for work we have been doing in pakistan, supporting their efforts. my first thought was, what? be a great leader, you have to say, absolutely. it has been an honor to help you. the first thing i did was call our chapter in say what is going on? in the first few weeks they had helped clear out hundreds of homes had worked with a number of groups to build bamboo

construction. these permanent homes are half the cost so it is remarkable that we got a grant to build three temporary villages. ,hrough this technology developed by the first female architect in pakistan, an incredible individual, they built three villages. of that is about sustainability. when we talk about sustainability, it is not just about material energy use. it is about social and economic sustainability. we need to protect the cultural heritage. we can't go into community and you a are going to give titanium building. we have to understand the cultures and elements of sustainability. by ignoring the heritage, we are actually discrediting the desires and needs of the community. so we invent our architect.

them as phd macgyver. they are incredibly smart but they can blowtorch ike nobody's business. they are midcareer professionals, emerging professionals that have dedicated their lives. who ran au see eric, haiti office, this is carry-on luggage that he did not get fined. anybody who can do that will get hired by me. so it is that entrepreneurial spirit. these are burmese architects using cell phone communication after the typhoon. decidedtect from hawaii not only to dedicated number of years of her life to rebuilding in india, she brought her entire family. made a professional choice, she made a personal commitment to move over there. right now her and her family are in mongolia building incredible

thing, i go of the said youamuel who once can't go back. start doing public service architecture, it is hard to say i am done with that one. you really understand that power. we partner with local professionals. that means we're not going going into a community and discrediting yokel engineers. we partner with them. we make sure there is an architect of record and go through the process. because in this humanitarian world, we are that benchmark. people look to us to say, how do we build? there are some architects. what are the standard? so when we go when we are not just saying, but shelter over people because that will help our say, how can we create the most relevant and effective structures that can be replicated throughout this area.

part of that process. we are not designing for these communities, we are designing with them. one of the greatest comments i got was in new orleans, she said, architects are in the wind beneath the wings. they allowed to soar. that is the power of architecture, working hand-in- hand with somebody and taking their dreams and realize it. other part is we create jobs. we are a massive job creator. when you think about the fact we are not just repairing an area, we are generating an economic force. the great thing about being an architect, you work locally. we are not shipping in fema trailers and structures that have been built overseas. we are working directly with the community. craft, theting beauty of crap. it is amazing the marriage between -- craft.

it is amazing the marriage between aesthetics. the most sustainable building in the world is the one that is loved. that is what we do best. it does not matter how many points you have, how much renewable energy you have on the building, unless somebody loves the building they are not going to take care of it. it is our responsibility to make sure we have the most beautiful structure that will be loved by that community. [applause] this is the only nerdy slide i'm going to show. this is an economic development plan where architects take a lead. we do not look at it as the nations, we talk about investments. by setting up a design studio locally, we bring in technical expertise. we marry that with construction capital and we develop all of the construction financing and contracting. part of architecture is not just

to deliver services, but to do construction management. we take your ideas and we make them real. we make sure we hire locally, anate jobs, it is part of economic recovery act. it worked well in haiti. we could do it here. finally, this is what makes it magnificent. by having the community involved, they are so empowered, you can transform that ownership to local community leaders. this is biloxi, mississippi. an incredible architect helped recovery effort. actors and economic development center. -- that is an economic development center. this kind of us. what did the reality is, it is value. i will go back through a bunch

of projects and talk about value. what value do we bring. the value of safety. a toughwas within neighborhood understands what safety brings, security brings. here we are. in the roughest neighborhood in south africa with the highest ,ncident of murder, rape violent crimes. working with a credible unit which is violence prevention rather than saying we want to do a do good project, let's put it by the highway so they can drive in and cut a ribbon and go, they look at a tactical approach. leaving out the most dangerous areas and that is where we go. -- we put in a magnificent building. we ended up in a part -- in a park where women were raped and dumped for decades. across the street from the

school, that is one the most dangerous places to be. we said that is where we are pretty get and where will going to make change. workng with architects, we with the community to develop health thomas education -- health, education. we are funded by fema. this after the world cup. was cultural.lity we made sure we created jobs, the building was also great. we involve local artists. -- was offbeat -- offer the grid. 18,000 children have gone through this program. increase in perceived safety. when somebody says, 16 strength dentistry endeavor is a safe area, they bring their kids.

in -- 16thn street denver is a safe area, they bring their kids. using data that architecture and design can make an incredible difference to create safe places for people to live. on the other side of africa, worked with a group bringing together tutsi children born after the genocide. born after that to know that is what happened. 800,000 people were killed. it brings together different groups. there is the one in which there are no referees. they have to agree on all of the rules. together to gork to conflict resolution. the other game which i really love is the gender equality game which is women account.

-- count. [applause] a credible program. these are beautiful. no bases wes, borrow ideas. we borrow ideas. there's a little window that you can see right here that reflects the window they did. it's a tip of the hat of another great design impact. we have done 20 of these across the continent in the last two years that is helped over 250,000 children. education,is health, coupled resolution. park in skate afghanistan were choose study skateboarding. that block by block, they could create peace by skating those streets.

start with six kids. than 60 then 600. these kids are amazing. to go to the skate park, you have to do two hours of afterschool education both english and computer science and other classes. at the end of the first year, it turned out that 50% of the -- it is really interesting that kids know when they get access to things like this they take advantage of it. no time for this. thank you. i have this clock here. it is like an ominous clock. [laughter] it is funny, i did a talk a few years ago in chicago. this elderly lady, she looks like my grandmother came up to me. she gave a donation and said, i really love what you do. i was like, really?

he is amazing. no, he just kept talking and talking and would not shut up. [laughter] ok, i get to the point. education is vital. education is vital around the globe. we have over 70 miniatures and who do not have access. if you do not have anderson cooper showing up in a tight t- shirt, the chances are you are not going to get the response you need. peru, three years after, half of their schools are like this. working with a credible groups, we are able to bring in architects and transform this within nine months to a working school. hundreds of kids are back in a safe haven for them to start learning again. this went on and on throughout peru. building these beautiful schools and you have to think about the budgets are really slender. and the timelines are tight. we run the organizations like a firm. it's incredibly stressful.

the work that comes out is magnificent. hang on. i have to do one thing. sorry. anyone from chicago here? for years did not understand what i did for a living. he kept leading architects and chicago sank my son really cannot find work. he did his do-gooder stuff. if you know any firms, i can pass it on. , i do notdad know need a job in chicago. [applause] that is ok. thank you. this is an incredible project. 10% of china's labor is migrant. they move from base to place. these are migrant construction workers.

both men and women who work on these large buildings in shanghai and beijing. you may have seen them. and the labor camps, they do not have schools for the kids. compassion for migrant children, we helped to build the simple classrooms that can move with the children. the idea that education goes a with them instead of this constant turnover area -- turnover. it has been successful. in kenya, we have done vocational training. with worked with a foundation to figure out ways where rule kids not going to are the slums of nairobi. kenya, we realized the cost of the water well. and collect enough or rainwater can not only provide clean drinking water for

1200 kids, but also access water you can give to the community. this building was built. i was doing the commencement speech at north dakota state. i said, this into by want a job in kenya? this guy is really burly. he ran to tackle most of his friends to give me his resume. a few months later, he finds himself in kenya building magnificent buildings. what is incredible about this, this place is not just a place working together for sports, it is where people get married. mr. cultural center. -- it is their cultural center. here there united states. we are on c-span. ipod touch cut the ship and a jacket on. i should put a jacket on. world and look at

educational facilities. the most shocking places are on the reservations. in inner-city america. we are the richest country and we cannot find adequate questions for our children question -- children? it is shameful. [applause] bonot is not about pro architecture. it is not for profit. it about dignified architecture. when we said we are going to give the best opportunity possible so you can be competitive am why are we 27 in the world in math and science? spaces that can empower them. that is something we are doing. funding universities around the united states. we did gorilla agreement which is like march madness -- gue like march which is

madness. hundreds of kids took over there this $10,000n prize. very simple program. super inspiring. the value of resilient places. i have 25 minutes. i'm going to go a little quicker. we are looking at disasters. it is like a moment. he runs in my tight t-shirt. look at what happened. people rush in. being a firstt responder. it is being at last responder. not the first person to put their hand out for help who shakes the hand of the community. we are not there for the photo op. we are there to make sure that community is transformed area when we look at post-disaster reconstruction, there is a rule area you have four days to respond, to announce you are going to help. we have a plan that is tangible,

real. you have four weeks, believe it or not, 80% of the money is raised for weeks after disaster. you have four weeks to raise on the funding. you have four months to mobile -- mobilize your team. and make sure you have design studio that is ready for that community. and when you are working with the community am a you say we are committed area we are not leaving. -- and when you are working with the community, you say we are committed. we are not leaving. we do not show up and say hi. we stay and make sure it is done. [applause] why architecture? why architects? natural disasters do not kill people. buildings do. poorly built buildings killed. in the case of haiti, it kill

hundreds of thousands of people. for me, it is quite personal. i have been to haiti before the earthquake. i was there to look at the rebuilding. a reporter came to me and asked me, what did i think of the housing stock? dangers,ng the seismic i said this a recipe for disaster. it displays gets hit, everyone is over. a few months later, the tragic earthquake hit haiti. takenher picture that was was the day i arrived in haiti after the quake. this a picture of me leaving the amputee hospital. and the people at the gates, the parents of the children who have lost limbs because of bad buildings. what is worse than not respond as north you could have. we made a commitment not to invest in buildings, but to

invest in professional service. would bring in the architects, the engineers, the planners, the local professionals and we would invest in putting together a rebuilding center that would compete and compare with anything done by international aid. it was a recipe for success. ofs is the largest number architects in haiti. we have the largest number working on the one roof. underose of you who are 30, we uses analog system. it is simple. it is like an ipad. [laughter] is, we beauty of that can very clearly talk to our community as say, no, you're not

going to get a home next week. they can see the stages of reconstruction. they can understand where they are. also, they see their friends. my neighbors are here. you also helped them. it begins to be this ecosystem of support we are providing. the most magical moment is when they finish a project, they get it to do that. they wiped the name of sa we are done. that is an incredible moment. not only looking at construction, we are looking at construction training. -- they wanted the name off and said we are done. they are still working there. there are no building codes. part of our responsibility is to ensure good training, we have strong buildings and we are going to utilize the funds we have garnered for housing and schools to train up haiti professionals with skilled jobs. we are also going to look at

make sure haitian architectures have access to international jobs. an international funder would come in and say where are your -- an architect has been working there for 30 years may have not have been using it. they could eventually beautifully -- could have been drawing the beautifully. we trade anybody who wanted training to make sure they had access. .o they could get the work we took everybody through what we called professional building services. at of course, when you ask communities what they want. number one in shelters and number two is jobs. i will show a quick video. [video clip]

>> it was not just an earthquake

aspect of this. total chaos. overseen and thinking it is ok. driven to creighton to create jobs and teaching the locals how to do it right.

>> the most amazing thing about dropped out of school. he is building the school he dropped out of. it is not just the education of the architecture that is changing but to the entire building ecosystem. we should not see ourselves as divisions within the building profession. we should see ourselves as partners. some projects we will lead, someone will not. your brothers and sisters who are engineers, planners, they make you look damn good. and you have to work alongside them. what will surprise you is 50% of our funding of haiti came from high school children. across united states in 19 other countries, children donated five dollars, $10 to help us rebuild. we think of our wonders as investors. through students we build --

rebuild, we as it will be like us to build? they asked us to build schools. when you look at the schools thomas they may seem very rudimentary schools. one, the river rock comes from less than five kilometers from the site. that is titanium. what it showed the community is they do not have to import material from overseas that would be three times the cost. e work with materials around them to crate a dignified and beautiful structure for their children. , it iser thing to note not just a earthquake that killed people. it was the way things were built. these were one of the schools that was partially destroyed. what i want you to look at is the ceiling. children had no time to escape from those classrooms.

when the earthquake struck, those blocks felt. we had to go in there and said i do not care it withstood the earthquake. this a death trap and we are not willing to allow future children to die because we overlooked an issue. we need to be preemptive. our role as a profession, if we see something that harms others, we have an opportunity to make sure it never does. working with that community, this is what happened. the mosby flow in haiti. colors by the kid. -- the most beautiful school in haiti. artists whocal manufactured these artworks. children can say this is haiti. we are proud of haiti. they can really find the pride in a rebuilt country. historic preservation. preserving the first school in haiti. a magnificent project.

a marriage between new technology and historical. renewal.ic we have built over 500 homes are you urban agriculturally based economy. -- we have built over 500 homes area urban agricultural-based economy. architects are looking not just act strong homes for the families but making sure infrastructure in there. beautiful parks, open streets. you see this as a simple project. slums, it isk in absolutely packed. you cannot get real estate. one of the jobs we need to do is make sure we have storm water runoff systems and sewer systems to prevent cholera. we do not want to have out works. -- outbreaks.

when you put a sports field down, people will go for real estate. this not a basketball court recycled court. does a storm water runoff system that runs underneath the sports facility. the human out how to use warts -- figure how to use sports for healthy lifestyle for the families who live there. working with the community to do an urban planning strategy was solar powered lighting to make sure we will prevent violence against women and children as spaces for people to gather. as iruction training mentioned and not just focusing on schools and housing, the lifeline of a community is its economic strength. make sure we'll look at the mom and pop businesses so people have jobs. rethinking how downtown. 80% of haiti is entrepreneurs. to ignore the lifeline of a

country is letting it die. making sure that was not outside our mandate. francois. he is my hero. look at a man, haitian architect who decided to give up his firm in new york and go back to the country that he calls his home. to dedicate his life to ensure not only there were strong buildings but a strong artist or -- strong architectural foundation so it would never happen again. -- and we should not overlook that one of a number of quiet heroes who made us look incredibly good for what we do. i have 11 minutes. we are going to go to japan really quickly. what we learned from haiti and katrina was it was not just about how we build, but how we

leave or he implemented an exit strategy like we are going to, to community and figure out the support and figure out a way so we do not stay. the exit strategy was part of our thinking as we started in japan. what is amazing, most people out of the tsunami. let me tell you. the only way to describe it is angry new englanders. these are blue-collar fisherman. they hate big business. hate people ~ what to do. they are incredibly resilient. -- they hate people telling them what to do. it was all over. we realized we cannot just be handing out design services. we had to partner. that could give access to education and welfare and

economic development. at an children came out incredible rate. we had a donor who said i am going to donate one dollar for every paper crane a kid makes and since to us. and we just put it on twitter and facebook. sat -- we said, we want to raise $100,000. what do you think happened? cranes showed up. fortunately, the donor did not give her address. she is persona non grata with ups. millions of kids came out and said we want to help harriet they can from -- we want to help. they came from all walks of life area children from haiti who

schools have been destroyed. they said this is one small act i can do. this a 40 foot by 40 foot sculpture. ,000 of those cranes. what we're able to do is take a number of those, tape them to and -- take them to japan and create them in the directly ship between donor and recipient of the kids who wrote messages are actually communicating with the kids who are now getting schooling. we started small. urban acupuncture as a way to get in the community. we talk to residents and other villages, they do not want a house. there were too busy worrying about who they lost. aware their home was. they were in a state of shock. they wanted a hot bowl of

noodles. the did not want prepackaged stuff given to them in shelters. we turned a bunch of trucks and we delivered hot noodles. that was our community center. we found a of the communities being affected. this was completely devastated. we search a few bowls of hot news, we began to understand the needs. does not sayenter community center. it is where people gather. hote served a few bowls of noodles, we began to understand the needs. a committee marketplace where sushi was certain. -- served. i have learned having liquids support and you community center helps. in your community center helps. another fisherman said, we have

no work. we lost all of our boats. one man was lamenting to his daughter. he said we are sitting on our butts doing nothing. they can with the idea of why not use net making. they started this micro business of a hammock factory. they needed somebody who weighed 200 pounds as a tester. you are looking at the chief tester. we also found in the , olderional housing unit residents do not get out the shelter because they were up high on the tenure. putting in housing that allowed it to connect. these are $5,000 projects. .10,000 projects make sure the kids have access to sports. destroyed,udio got 30% of the kids perished. when the instructor asked the kids, we should pack it uth sai.

we need somewhere to play. we have another studio. one of my favorite projects is the soccer facility. with all the temporary housing, there was no access for kids to have a place to play and normalcy. was ancer coa asparagus farmer. he really did not want to grow any more asparagus. he was worried about future residents and the effects of the nuclear fallout. we tested the land. it was completely fine. he donated this field to us. using telephone poles that had doe down, we were able to structural support. we hired the fishermen. wood and stones, we get the seating area. what was nice about this, i adopted this team. i decided, i found out from the kids their uniforms had been handed down generation to generation.

father to son, mother to daughter. we worked with our funder which is nike to produce a kit for paragi.ich was little as it was not about providing structure. it is providing a system where architectures could best help them recover. forpened a business economic recovery center that brings in ideas for community and facility architects and engineers and holes in support area -- support. actually build new businesses and jumpstart an economy that has been lacking. these are our clients. they come from all walks of life. in the next few years, they will be doing incredible work. i want to announce -- these are some the projects area a marketplace. a women's cooperative. my favorite -- i'm going to run

over. is that ok? mickey was a you have to keep it in time. and together learning credits. like, you have to keep in time. pictures ofo put up devastated communities. i want to see the walk out. [laughter] i am kidding. i am good? >> i will cut my short. announce -- no, i will not. japany favorite client in paris i love this guy. he is in his 60's. this guy is the worst fisherman. the worst. -- in japan. -- i love this guy. he can fish. he is a great fisherman. he does not know how to tie knots.

fisheed to know to get the and tied knots. what happened is every time he would come back to work on -- port, he would go and have a few beers. it was a your boat is the -- and in the middle of the port. ity would tell him to tie properly. march 11, he tied up his boat area -- boat. slim --0 feet high slammed wiping out the town. every boat destroyed. many of you probably saw the footage on television. he gets a phone call three days later from japan railways. do you have a boat? yes. we found a boat for columbus and

lend resting on the train tracks in and landing on the treacherous. his boat cannot have a scratch. that is his boat. of the fishing cooperative. [laughter] was looking for freshman. he needed to restock his boat. was looking for a not higher. -- knot tier. very humble. closest 15his friends. they decided to start a business. we have an opportunity. with working with him, we developed this oyster, seaweed a

bar so the consumer out there fish. they can sell their oysters and have a beer and talk. a beautiful project. that was the first village we met. remember the one that was destroyed? ,orking with japanese firms every project we build has a licensed professional architectural firm partner with us. we are not about taking -- we are about expanding work. this firm came in for japan and came up with this incredible, beautiful system of building very quickly. like an origami house they can come together area -- together. you can see how beautiful the structure is area we -- is. we are looking at a budget of tens of millions of dollars every -- dollars. it is about caring. that is the difference.

i want to announce our latest project. is a young emerging projects area -- this is the young emerging project. we are incredibly fortunate. we are looking for architects who would like to help us rebuild sports facilities and youth centers. one of the -- one of the applicants was this young man. he has done incredible work. working one-on-one with families. really thinking about rebuilding. grilli dedicated to not just his body of work -- it really dedicated to not just his body of work i'm a he said we really need to work together. we need to bring the community together. -- it's incredible incredible to be partnered with him. new york.

i am open by one minute. -- over by one minute. sandy. i was actually born in london. i was made in new york. the man i am today was made in new york. everything i believe in, everything i love about design. when iing i think about talk about responding to communities happened in new york city. when sandy was coming among those of us who are in the reconstruction world knew exactly what was going to happen. and it was horrific. much, much been worse. certainly, the most high risk areas are those the most in need. many of you have seen, downtown new york lost power. it's like the rockaway at staten island lost her life lines. it is up to us as architects and

engineers and professionals to say, we are not going to let this happen again. we are going to build a strong city. you have already met our regional rubber manager. -- project manager. rachel. toare incredibly fortunate have an amazing staff. this year, we have three emerging professionals. they were either our chapters area they are dedicated to see how architecture can make a difference. they have a five-point plan. we are helping. that is the short answer. see, those of you were not in new york and did not see the devastation. it is pretty rough. it is not what you saw in the coffee shops wall street.

this is breezy point. this the rockaway's. seaside heights. this a building disaster. this is where we can really respond. we are doing a couple of things. we are going to be announcing very soon we are going to be repairing and building three sports facilities for new york city schools. there's a recon some designer. will it be looking for a couple of more firms. we are working in seaside heights. one the most bizarre fundraising events was myself and snooki on mtv. it was -- i am not going to go into it. we are focused on another projects. rebuild.t ways to help chapter in new york city will be working with a number of residents at the firehouse. not only an important building

for security and safety, it was built in 1906 and should be preserved historically. projects thatrite we are yet to fund is bernie. policeman,w york fireman, and lifeguard. he has two sons were firefighters. he had one son that was in fitzgerald. he lost her son on 9/11. -- he lost his son on 9/11. when sandy came, a devastated what was the heart of that community. the harbor life restaurant was the chairs of the rockaway's -- cheers of the rockaway's. it is where everybody talks. bernie has been incredibly resilient to rebuild it by himself. i met him. he was a think about service restaurant saying i will build it back.

this is one of many structures would like to get back on his feet in new york. it is not just international disaster. we work on 12 programs. are finding ourselves more working in the united states. here in oklahoma, you saw the terrible tornadoes. we are working locally and the regionalaia has done an incredible job. -- regional aia has done an incredible job. is way we fund and operate very pinpointed. maybe we should stop think about disasters as one town or one neighborhood, and rather than waiting for the account to be destroyed, maybe we should think about resiliency. they went to launch a resiliency fund. we've already made great steps withthat boat with -- both aia. we are working with the clinton

global initiative on a number of programs look at resiliency. if we call ourselves the strongest, safest entry in the world, we should prove it. we should prove it would save basis and resilient places -- laces and resilient places. i came to this country for this reason. it allowed me to do with i believe and. we have an opportunity to make sure we do that. we need to think about disasters not as a reactive think. when people say what to do we do in this high risk area of seattle or vancouver or san aidcisco, they said we need team of architects and engineers they can think smartly. but we so need to go forward. i'm going to go do some more projects. these are in the last few years area -- few years.

on the reservation. for women in mexico where many of the men have moved up north. religious populated with the regionsiguring -- populated with women, figuring out jobs. have here in chicago, we food deserts. some the richest cities in the world do not have access to first -- first vegetables. another emerging leader came up with this idea of mobile, organic grocery stores that would drive around and deliver fresh vegetables into those food deserts. foods andwith fresh this fresh moves organization behind this has been sold out every single day since they opened these buses. now cities like new york, l.a., san francisco, seattle have seen

this as sad as that of building these brick-and-mortar groceries, we can utilize our transportation to make sure we get fresh and clean decibels to and cleanunities -- the vegetables to those communities that needed. portugal, taking military sites and transforming them into ocean and coastline reservation centers. , the architects decide instead of using modern techniques and they would actually do a soil block the crate jobs. they do not just a maybe exit building in mozambique, if the new building owners that can go -- you doe the system not just see a beautiful mozambique, it

is the building owners they can go out and use the system. as a cooling design feature. you go in and say, this smells nice. coolest design features. if you want to talk about disasters, let's talk about health. http://twitter.com/cspanwj -- [video clip] >> i would invite desecrate something new. -- i would create something new. >> it is a long time. >> i would try to fix everything i did bad. >> i would try to bring my uncle at. i would want to go looking for matter.

>> if i can live an extra five years, i would make a helicopter. a wooden helicopter. >> i do not have any wood. >> i would probably teach my sister. machine that lets you -- i would create a machine that allows you to run at the lightspeed. boss.ould be the >> i would do anything. --wire you asking me that why are you asking me that?

>> it turns out we have built cities, towns that create an activity. and we have a health care crisis in this country where children under 10 will die five years younger than their parents. i have a six-year-old daughter. it turns out what you put in your body, and the places that you live in the idea of having active lifestyle. organizations came together to look at the idea of how to we tackle obesity through solutions on not problems. as a not classify obesity disease. let's figure how to transform the communities we live in great the most active sense is that we have written and so what we have done this pigment out how cities twoss you -- we live in great the most active citizens

that we have. in citiesne this across the country. we spend more on healthcare and education. it is a cycle that will not get better unless we act now. we think of disasters, not just that arel, the ones common. at healthcare as you know is a huge one. how do we create -- is this not a design problem? this is not to work for you for the next decade? how old interest from the cities how we can- transform the cities and towns? whether they are urban spaces or natural spaces were neglected

spaces. you can look at five key areas, open spaces, transportation, schools, and the workplace. these five areas these are key areas where we can make massive strides in creating active communities and stitching them together with these spaces. rather than seeing a city as a destination am a let's see it as a community and how we can transform the cities are being this is not about doing good. it is about doing right. -- transform the cities. this is not about doing good. it is about doing the right. i will ask this question again. what is the value of architecture? lesson three percent of the world uses the services of an architecture. -- less than three percent of the world uses the services of -- of anecture or the

architecture. up to three percent, the public only know a dozen or so architects.rea -- is ourue of architecture ability to translate the solution-based approach that we have. 71% the world is in dire need of good design, well meaningful buildings area guess who can do it? all of you. there should not be a single architecture out of work -- architect out of work. overe recession, they hold 150 jobs. whentecture was dead last it came to the number of people who were laid off. with the highest percentage. 700% compared to other

professions. we were actually below. you know the guys who got us involved in the whole crisis to begin with? of -- weguys who kind have a value proposition problem. we need to position ourselves as said if you want to solve some the big issues, we are the profession that can do it. we have to look at it in a different way. it would've to look in the value of collective change. yes, we are all individual firms. at collectively, if it is not natural, it is billed by an architect. we can make these changes together. value ofok at the tangible benefits. do not talk to communities about design strategies or ideas. talk to them about impact.