Social housing + downtowns [Quito]

  While visiting Quito during Habitat III, I had the fortune to accompany some Chilean and Mexican architects to a Continue reading →

I am Home: The ‘New’ Place of Heritage

Post by Diana Maldonado & Marysol Uribe. [1] In the current times, facing the paradigm of the post-global world, the Continue reading →

Revisiting Housing pilots [Haiti], part 2>> initial design + intent

Following the post written by Nathalie Jolivert reporting – two years after its construction-on the first housing pilot project in the first 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 →

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 →

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 →

Owner Driven Housing

me: .. hey Akbar, I am writing a blog about Owner Driven Housing, how would you define Owner Driven Housing? Continue reading →

HOUSING AS PROCESS NOT PRODUCT, part 2

Continuing on some of the principles established around housing and habitat in PART 1, 3. [RESPECT] ECOLOGY To give a concrete Continue reading →