More Details on the End of Architecture for Humanity

The news of Architecture for Humanity's closure caught a lot of people off guard when it broke this month in the San Francisco Chronicle—including some of the organization's own volunteers. According to an article by Shaunacy Ferro, "[in] a way, Architecture for Humanity's public unraveling mirrors the deeper problems that ultimately contributed to its demise: disorganization, an inability to adapt, and simmering tension between the parent organization and its army of volunteers."

The article goes on provide more detail than previously reported about the organization's trouble keeping some projects on budget or, for that matter, completing them at all. The cause of the organizations downfall, ultimately, was a struggle to raise the funds necessary to support its increasingly global operations. In fact, in an addendum to the article, FastCo.Design reports that Architecture for Humanity expects to file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in the next few weeks.

Although the article acknowledges that volunteers working at local chapters could move forward with projects still under development, there will be a lot of confusion about how to do that until the organization's bankruptcy is figured out.