June 12, 2024 What Are Vernacular Technologies? Vernacular architecture has been gaining more and more space in theory and design practice, with its characteristics being studied and revised. An impulse related…
May 26, 2024 Land as Raw Material: Latin American Homes Built With Locally Sourced Soil Organizing, shaping, stacking. Transforming raw materials from the soil into architecture. This is a challenge that many Latin American architects embrace, demonstrating that scarcity…
April 21, 2024 Between Modular and Vernacular: How Combining Construction Techniques Can Bring Agility and Identity to Social Housing in the Global South The opening scenes of the award-winning Brazilian film “City of God” (2002) portray a newly constructed housing complex situated on the outskirts of Rio…
