Haiti Earthquake Worsens the Urban Collapse: What Can Architects Do?


Haiti after the 2020 earthquake. Image via Flickr user: United Nations Development Programme, lincensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Haiti after the 2020 earthquake. Image via Flickr user: United Nations Development Programme, lincensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Haiti is suffering the consequences of a magnitude-7.2 earthquake that worsen a national crisis. News agencies have published photographs of collapsed buildings in Port-au-Prince recalling the destruction due to the 2010 earthquake.

As humanitarian aid is been deployed around the world to collaborate in rescue, shelter, health care, and food, questions arise: how does architecture help?

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