@racne – Architecture and Human Rights

Our planet is experiencing a decisive moment for its future. In the last few decades, we have faced major threats as climate crisis, social inequality, and humanitarian emergencies (natural disasters and man-made crises). In addition, we must consider the collapse of the international order based on laws and agreements that various nations have worked hard on to build up, starting with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Paris 1948).
The Architecture and Human Rights series disseminates and deepens the reflections and guidelines of the cultural association and international research laboratory, ARCH HR, that investigates the dialogue between architecture and human rights.
The various volumes illustrate practices and research developed by authors around the world that share a common denominator: faith in the transformative project power, where architecture is called upon to assume a social responsibility to improve the conditions of the most vulnerable social systems.
At a time of great global conflict, we called upon architects, engineers, planners and professionals responsible of human territoriality to build a more just, democratic, and peaceful society. We hope this series of books would be part of your inspiration and future projects.