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Interview: Designing a wish

By Maggie Mcdonald

15 March 2006

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A simulation of a Cameron Sinclair shelter design

WHAT would you do with $100,000? Buy a top-of-the-range Porsche? A yacht with all the trimmings? Not interested, says the man who has won just that at the Technology Entertainment Design conference, and been shortlisted for the UK’s top design award. But then Cameron Sinclair is a rarity: an architect who involves the community he works for and learns from them. So “Design like you give a damn” is a fitting motto for the organisation he co-founded, Architecture for Humanity. It supplies people with long-term design and architecture ideas, from mobile HIV/AIDS clinics in Africa to…

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