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 →

Planning Failure, Ecological Failure

  The opening ceremony of the Rio Olympics are quickly approaching. The years since Rio was awarded the 2016 Summer Continue reading →

Urban Forces – Venezuela in Venice

Post by Silvia Soonets Last week,the Venezuelan pavilion in Venice opened to the public .  The exhibition, Urban Forces, displays a Continue reading →

ECUADOR: [re]learning from reconstruction/ lecciones de reconstruction

Photograph above: Rebuilding in Port au Prince, source Claude Andre Nadon/UNOPS For this post I want to reference an article 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 →

(Co)producción del hábitat

[‘Guest Post’ por Sergio Salazar] Al hablar de la producción social del hábitat, viene a la mente el término acuñado 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 →