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Architecture by Moonlight
When a natural disaster strikes, one imposing obstacle always impedes recovery: the need to rebuild. Not just homes, schools, and other buildings but also lives must be reconstructed. Yet amid the horror there is also the opportunity to build back better, to create more resilient buildings and deeper human connections.
After Haiti's 2010 earthquake, architect Paul E. Fallon wanted to help rebuild the magic island he had visited the previous summer. Over the next three years, he made seventeen trips to design and supervise construction of an orphanage and a school in Grand Goâve. In the process, he confronted the challenges of building in a country with sparse materials and with laborers predisposed toward magic over physics.
Architecture by Moonlight is about much more than construction, however. Readers will also experience the many relationships Fallon developed as he balanced the contradictory demands of a boisterous American family constructing a memorial for their deceased daughter and Evangelical missionaries more interested in saving souls than filling bellies. Dieunison, a wily Haitian orphan, captured Fallon's heart and exemplifies both Haiti's tragedy and its indomitable spirit.
Fallon's personal experience is an eloquent tale of \"an ensemble of incomplete people struggling in a land of great trial and great promise, trying to better understand their place on Earth.\" He reveals how, when seemingly different people come together, we succeed by seeking our commonality. Architecture by Moonlight illustrates our strength to rise above disaster and celebrate recovery, perseverance, and humanity.
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THE HUNTINGTON
The casual set, the diverse casting (which bore no relation to 1980's Ireland), and the notched-up volume within Calderwood Pavilions Wimberly Theater made Sing Street feel more like a Broadway-bound production from that company across the Charles River than usual Huntington fare. Before the performance Managing Director Michael Maso, Artistic Director Toretta Greco, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, and August Wilsons widow, Constanza Romero, addressed the audience and unveiled a plaque dedicating the lobby of the renovated theatre in honor of Wilson. The set, the lighting, the acting, the ceaseless push to acquire more zeros after any dollar amount, saturated the audience with the power, potential, and excesses of our economic system.
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Urban Dwellings, Haitian Citizenships: Housing, Memory, and Daily Life in Haiti
(Paper US$34.95) Urban Dwellings, Haitian Citizenships is a sobering exposé of how reconstruction efforts after the 2010 earthquake failed the people of Haiti by creating economic development projects that serve the interests of international corporations and Western powers-as well as base corruption-rather than the interests of citizens. The 2010 earthquake focused international attention and resources on Haiti, and provided an opportunity to support a societal model whose value is more nuanced than bottom-line profit. How she came to Port-au-Prince ..., how she came to occupy and maintain a house she does not legally own..., and how the property supports an array of people and informal economic activities due to its architectural form and context to the wider neighborhood-all this is as gripping as any novel.
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