I'm Amber Lush. I'm a recent architecture graduate interested in community driven design and the social value of architecture. I have worked as a volunteer on sustainable income-generating community projects in Kenya and spent time in informal settlements in Nairobi carrying out research for a paper on making good design available to everyone.

I established the charitable organisation bricks + cartwheels, that works to provide an opportunity for people and communities to directly influence their own built environment, with a focus on community participation and capacity building.

bricks + cartwheels is currently working with the community of Katolo, Kenya to design and build a secondary school for girls, due to commence construction in 2009. For more information, check out http://www.bricksandcartwheels.org/

I now work as a graduate architect at Constructive Dialogue Architects, and I love to refresh my spirit by spending time with my sister and cooking with my girlfriends.