Photo of a home being retrofitted courtesy of Build Change
Interview by Lisa Richmond with Ariana Karamallis. Featured in Architizer.
Build Change is a global leader in systems change for resilient housing. The public benefit corporation coordinates engineers, builders, coders, policy advocates and lending partners to provide urgently needed housing solutions in the world’s most disaster-prone countries. Shifting power to families since 2004, Build Change has safeguarded over $4.7 billion in housing infrastructure assets across Latin America, the Caribbean and Asia-Pacific, improving the lives of over 1.17 million people by building new or retrofitting more than 230,000 buildings at the cost of $58 per safer person.
Architecture 2030’s Lisa Richmond caught up with Ariana Karamallis, Build Change’s Global Advocacy and Development Associate, to talk about what they do and what’s ahead in the work towards community resilience in the context of climate change…
