The New Vistas Controversy, The Cost of the Status Quo

GUEST POST by Ralph Spencer Steenblik NewVistas is a holistic masterplanned community designed by the foundation bearing the same name, and Continue reading →

Revisiting Housing pilots [Haiti], 2 years later

Credits for photograph above: Claude André Nadon With a unique opportunity to hear an outsider’s perspective on the interventions and their impact 2 and Continue reading →

Sambinha Architecture, Technological Entrapment, and the Pioneering Spirit

How informal urbanism affects the way we think about formal urbanism is one of the crucial questions we ask here Continue reading →

Arquitectura sensorial, la dimensión de la percepción

Según estudios realizados por el instituto Max Planck de psicolinguistica titulado “Los verbos referentes a la vista predominan en las Continue reading →

Urban thinking from the streets: Architecture students reflect on participatory design

Guest post by Joseph Vitale  The role of the architect in Latin America has taken a massive turn in recent Continue reading →

Sambinha Architecture and the Latent World

They say that architecture brings out attributes of the world that may have gone unexpressed or unnoticed in its absence. Sometimes Continue reading →

Peripheral Dis ruptions: A Trans-local Look to Marginal Architecture

  [Guest Post by Daniel Torrego Gómez] [1] Urbanism. New epistemologies. Urban studies are going through a big controversy that threatens Continue reading →

But how will all be housed? (2)

Last week I visited my husband Akbar, who is working as Site Planner at the refugee reception centre on the Continue reading →