A Manifesto for XinWu Village

Figure 1 Collective masterplan A Manifesto for XinWu Village by Ralph Spencer Steenblik As the architectural cleansing continues in China, Continue reading →

Slum-free Mumbai

Above: Dharavi redevelopment collage, source: internet For this point I want to reference you to an article written by Yue Continue reading →

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 →

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 →

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 →

Cartografía mental y nuevos sistemas de orientacion en la ciudad

Luego de considerarme adicta al uso del GPS para orientarme en la ciudad, sobre todo cuando el tiempo apremia. Quise hacer una Continue reading →