Blog Like You Give A Damn (1)

Blog Like You Give A Damn

Blog Post #2 by Hannah Pauling (April 2014)

After returning from my study abroad trip in Italy early, due to illness, I found myself fairly lost back at Cal Poly SLO. I took a Museum Display Design class (see my blog called HAM'D) and rediscovered why I love design so much: Enthusiastic Sustainability Ideas!

During that Spring Quarter, as I struggled through my illness, I also struggled through what it truly means to be happy. A professor of mine, I'll call him by his initials, ML, paved the path back to architectural design by giving me hope for the future and my eventual thesis, but also by encouraging me to read the book "Design Like You Give A Damn" (1).

If you haven't read this book, you must! It is mostly graphics, for those un-inclined to reading, and tells the story of Architecture for Humanity, a group I now volunteer with regularly in the DC metro area. Unlike Habitat for Humanity (another wonderful company), the architecture is designed solely by architects or architecturally inclined people, rather than more construction-focussed people. The projects still get built, but bring a bit more style to what could otherwise end up quite cookie-cutter.

I am now reading the second book in the "Design Like You Give A Damn" series.

Photo Credit: Architecture for Humanity