Last month’s practical workshops had our students getting their hands dirty to learn superadobe and rammed earth construction techniques. The two-week workshop period was led by our co-director Sandra Bestraten…
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The annual AESOP congress organized by the Association of European Schools of Planning as a platform of exchange in the fields of research, education and practice in urban planning is…
You may remember our former student, Shareen Elnaschie, from her article on building disaster-resilient communities in flood-prone areas and her recent competition for creative activism. Today at EJOLT (Environmental Justice,…
The villas of Buenos Aires, also referred to as villas miserias, are informal settlements found in Argentina, mostly around the largest urban settlements. The term was adopted from Bernardo Verbitsky‘s…
Just recently, our guest professor Sergio Palleroni gave us the head’s up on this new publication titled The Architecture of Change: Building a Better World, a compilation of articles from…
How can we engage communities? To what extent should the project process be participatory? How do researchers negotiate with the hegemony of western cultural interpretations? How does the researcher journey…
Yesterday on our Facebook page we shared this candid shot of our students in a physical exercise where 10 students had to “cooperate” and lower a paper tube to the…
Class of 2012 graduates Sonam Lama and Ella Chau have released their trailer for a documentary that brings to light a controversial road development that is threatening the preservation of…
Yesterday and today, professor Isabelle Anguelovsky led a short workshop with our students on the theoretical underpinnings of urban development, sustainability planning, and environmental inequalities, and on achieving urban environmental…
Last Friday, the Curry Stone Foundation named three winners of its 2013 Curry Stone Design Prize: Studio TAMassociati/Emergency of Venice and Milan for their health care facilities in war-torn areas;…