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Shelter Competition 2021 by arch out loud
Jan 13, 2021
2021 Shelter Competition by arch out loud News
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“We yearn to be closer to nature and experience its beauty, while we are being increasingly brutalized by its harshest elements.”
The Shelter Competition by arch out loud in 2021
BACKGROUND
The year 2020 was officially the most active Atlantic hurricane season on record.
Since 1950 the National Hurricane Association has assigned names to each qualifying storm beginning with the letter A and working towards the end of the alphabet. Tropical Storm Arthur began the Atlantic hurricane season in May 2020 and five months later the alphabetical naming system had been exhausted with the formation of Tropical Storm Wilfred. 2020 is only the second year where the Greek alphabet has been required to supplement additional storm names. Both literally and figuratively, humanity resides in the midst of two distinct trends. While we yearn to be closer to nature and experience her beauty, we are being increasingly brutalized by her harshest elements. We watch as the changing climate brings natural calamity and damage to a larger group of people and a wider swath of geography. We watch the increasing frequency and strength of nature wreaking havoc among our communities. We watch as those who lose their homes to hurricanes and natural disasters rebuild and hop...