A complete anthology of emergency housing; includes the work of Federico Soriano, Steven Holl, Shigeru Ban, Wiel Arets, 5+1, Glenn Murcutt, and others In December 2009 a team of academics and scholars of architecture and city-planning met for an international conference on the topic: "emergency housing2". The conference acknowledged as its premise that the dwelling remains a primary need for over one billion people around the world who still live in precarious conditions. The latter appeared as an increasingly urgent reason for planning to return dignity to mankind, a dignity permanently tied to the idea of home. Text in English and Italian. 700 colour photos
