ABSTRACT
This chapter suggests that informal institutions of humanitarian architecture transcend borders more regularly. The vitality of architecture depends heavily on global flows of information, knowledge, and ideas. As a field that straddles arts and technical fields, architecture is intimately connected to avant-garde arts movements as well as innovations in the sciences. Schools, organizations, and professional bodies are among the sites that institute humanitarian architecture. A small team can launch a popular humanitarian architecture news blog in a couple years, whereas a university program in humanitarian architecture requires layers of approval, funding, and the commitment of larger resources. The global proliferation of humanitarian architecture work is intimately connected to the workings of the institutions of architecture. Most notable among these institutions are universities, large organizations, professional associations and weblogs, publications, and awards. A globalized culture of humanitarian architecture can be interpreted as the dominance of one model of humanitarian architecture work over others.
