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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. She's 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 women's refuge in Melbourne's Preston, it becomes apparent that although she's making her own mark on the world, she's doing so in the shadow of her siblings. Charlesworth, and her twin sister, are th...