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Thatched Roofs, Plant Fibers, and Leaves: Examples in Latin American Projects

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Mil Centro / Estudio Rafael Freyre. Image © Gustavo Vivanco

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Historically, natural elements were often the only raw materials indigenous populations used to build their temporary shelters or permanent dwellings. Today, environmental awareness and an interest in ecological construction methods have given rise to more sustainable practices that adapt these procedures to contemporary requirements. In this way, by incorporating biodegradable and low-environmental-impact materials into their projects and blending them with modern resources to enhance their physical properties, architects have successfully revived the ancestral techniques of their regions, forging a path toward green building.

Samuel Bravo Selected as the Winner of the 2017 Harvard GSD Wheelwright Prize

Chilean architect Samuel Bravo has been selected as the winner of the Harvard University Graduate School of Design 2017 Wheelwright Prize, a $100,000 travel grant established to support “investigative approaches to contemporary design.”

Bravo’s research proposal, Projectless: Architecture of Informal Settlements, seeks to study the architecture of traditional and informal settlements, offering a contemporary revisiting of Bernard Rudofsky’s “architecture without architects” exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in 1964.

Ani Nii Shobo Lodge / Sandra Iturriaga + Samuel Bravo

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Pucallpa, Peru