Architects Without News Today

SDG Pavilions installed in Copenhagen for the UIA World Congress of Architects include a repurposed glasshouse, a red raft and a huge green washing machine.

The very essence of architecture is to design and create buildings that fulfil a certain purpose. Often, the built environment can shy away from creating key projects for those who need it most.

Share Esther Charlesworth, founder of humanitarian organisation Architects Without Frontiers (AWF) and a professor at RMIT University’s school of architecture and urban design, is the youngest child in a family of seven. Shes got quite a story of her own. But over a 90-minute meal in which she travels from 1980s Melbourne to Harvard Uni, through the troubled Balkans and Africa, then back to a womens refuge in Melbournes Preston, it becomes apparent that although shes making her own mark on th...