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My wish: A call for open-source architecture

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Cameron Sinclair |

TED2006

• February 2006

Accepting his 2006 TED Prize, Cameron Sinclair demonstrates how passionate designers and architects can respond to world housing crises. He unveils his TED Prize wish for a network to improve global living standards through collaborative design.

Accepting his 2006 TED Prize, Cameron Sinclair demonstrates how passionate designers and architects can respond to world housing crises. He unveils his TED Prize wish for a network to improve global living standards through collaborative design.

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Cameron Sinclair

Co-founder, Architecture for Humanity

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2006 TED Prize winner Cameron Sinclair is co-founder of Architecture for Humanity, a nonprofit that seeks architecture solutions to global crises -- and acts as a conduit between the design community and the world's humanitarian needs.

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Cameron Sinclair opens up architecture

The architect's goal was to create an open-source platform to foster collaborative building design. See how his plan has evolved.

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