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CURRY STONE DESIGN PRIZE AT HARVARD - November 21, 2011

The Curry Stone Design Prize celebrated its three 2011 winners with a two-day festival at...

2011 Curry Stone Design Prize Winners Announced - October 14, 2011

Bend, OR (October 4, 2011)—The 2011 Curry Stone Design Prize Winners were announced today with...

2011 Curry Stone Design Grand Prize Winner Announced Sustainable Architecture in Post-Disaster Areas - October 4, 2011

2011 Curry Stone Design Grand Prize Winner Announced
Sustainable Architecture in Post-...

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2009 Winners

Alejandro Echeverri and Sergio Fajardo

2009 Curry Stone Design Grand Prize Winner

A bold and ambitious public works plan for the Colombian city of Medellín that helped revitalize its poorest neighborhoods and transform what was considered the deadliest city in the world into a vibrant, urban hub is the winner of the 2009 Curry Stone Design Prize. Alejandro Echeverri, Medellín’s former director of urban projects, and Sergio Fajardo, the city’s former mayor, will share the $100,000 award, announced today at the IdeaFestival in Louisville, Kentucky. “Our most beautiful buildings,” Fajardo has said, “must be in our poorest areas.”
Extended Profile

Anna Heringer

2009 Curry Stone Design Prize Winner

The “handmade” village schools and single-family homes designed by
Anna Heringer in rural Bangladesh are an elegant blend of old and new, bucking the growing trend toward cement and steel buildings in the region by offering a sustainable alternative. These buildings combine local materials such as bamboo and straw with modern building components, and are constructed entirely by hand by local people, without the need for machinery or dependence on outside markets. These beautiful, small-scale community-built structures reaffirm that “progress” can be both ecologically sensitive and support local craftsmanship. Extended Profile

Transition Network

2009 Curry Stone Design Prize Winner

The Transition Network is an international, community-led response to global warming and declining oil reserves. The “open source” movement, inspired by Rob Hopkins, a founding member of the Network who founded the Transition Town Totnes, connects more than 200 cities and towns worldwide that have adopted creative and collective approaches to reducing their carbon footprint, from large-scale community gardens to introducing a local currency to encourage local consumption. Hopkins literally wrote the book for the movement, The Transition Handbook. “In Transition,” a new wiki documentary made from video footage submitted by Transition Initiative leaders worldwide, is available for group screenings this month, followed by a DVD release in December. Extended Profile

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