Editing Architecture for Humanity (section)

{{Short description|American charity (1999–2015)}}
{{Infobox company 
| name = Architecture for Humanity
| logo =
| type = [[Non-profit organization]]
| key_people = [[Cameron Sinclair]] and [[Kate Stohr]], Co-Founders
| industry = [[Architecture]], [[International Development]], [[Non Profit]], [[Construction]]
| products = 
| revenue          = $12,011,838 [[USD]] (2012/2013)<ref name="irs_990_2010">{{citation | title=Return of Organization Exempt from Income Tax (IRS Form 990) | publisher=Architecture for Humanity | year=2013 | url=http://www.guidestar.org/FinDocuments/2013/300/038/2013-300038297-0a737b8d-9.pdf }}</ref>
| operating_income = 
| net_income = 
| num_employees = 65 (2012); 0 (2015)
| parent =
| subsid =
| homepage = {{URL | https://web.archive.org/web/20150215105637/http://architectureforhumanity.org/ | architectureforhumanity.org}} (archived)
| footnotes =
| foundation = 1999
| location = [[San Francisco, CA]]
| defunct = {{end date|2015|01}}
}}

'''Architecture for Humanity''' was a US-based [[charitable organization]] that sought [[architectural]] solutions to [[humanitarian]] [[crisis|crises]] and brought professional [[design]] services to clients (often communities in need). Founded in 1999, it laid off its staff and closed down at the beginning of January 2015.

Since then, the 59 US-based architecture for humanity chapters (which were already operating more or less in a self-sufficient manner even before Architecture for Humanity closed down) formed the '''Open Architecture Collaborative'''<ref name=dezeen/><ref name=curbed/><ref name="a4hnetwork.jimdo.com"/> and vowed to continue. It could thus be argued that despite the closing of the main office, the movement that Architecture for Humanity represented has indeed been strengthened, and not weakened, as it has forced the chapters to operate truly self-sufficiently, and cooperate more directly with the other chapters.<ref>Design Like You Give a Damn 2, page 46, Lesson 10:Design yourself out of a job</ref>