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20140309SamuelMocbee265x200 Samuel Mocbee. He liked to be called "Citizen Architect". Because that was for him the architectural profession: a commitment to citizenship. With the forces and energies that make the world a better place. There in Alabama, he implemented beautiful architectures "shelter for the soul", rooted in a poor land, forever marginalized, and he implemented an academic project - Rural Studio - to disseminate this mode of work.
20130309ChristopherAlexander265x200 Christopher Alexander. Here the methodology is presented to construct the habitat and "reconstruct" the beauty of the Earth. Now web technology has enriched the transmission interfaces theories proclaimed in the sixties of the last century with the contribution of abundant and enriching additional information, as examples, bibliography, downloadable materials and links to other architects who follow his teachings.
2014030JohnHabraken265x200 John Habraken. Dutch architect, graduated in 1955 at the TU Delft.
Author of alternative processes for the production of mass housing, published in "Supports, an Alternative to Mass Housing" or "The Structure of the Ordinary". His projects and research are developed in the School of Architecture of Eindhoven, which he founded, and at MIT, who runs for sixteen years. In its official website all that work is presented, with numerous publications and downloadable presentations.
20140309Elemental265x200 Elemental is a company in partnership with the Chilean Oil Company (COPEC) and the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. It is headed by the architect Alejandro Aravena.
Its strength is the search for innovation and design in projects of public interest and social impact.
20140309Kere265x200 Kere Architecture. Diébédo Kéré Francis was born in a village in the interior of Burkina Faso. He trained as an architect in Germany, from where expands his activity to the world. His studio aims to develop its native country, with architectural projects of great sensitivity and demanding actions.
20140309UrbanThinkTank265x200 Urban-Think Tank is an interdisciplinary design practice dedicated to high-level research and design on a variety of subjects, concerned with contemporary architecture and urbanism. It is headed by Brillembourg and Klumpner, who currently are teaching at ETH Zurich. Their work is concerned with the theoretical and practical applications within architecture and urban planning in global contexts, creating bridges between industries in the first and third world.
20140309GonzalezLobo265x200 Maximum space, minimum cost. Carlos González Lobo y María Eugenia Hurtado are mexican teachers and researchers. They have developed a design of housing types based on a sophisticated elemental technology, and has made possible the construction of housing projects in places where such initiative seemed impossible.
20140309VastuShilpa265x200 Balkrishna Doshi. Disciple of Le Corbusier, Aga Kahn Award for Architecture, founder in 1962 of the Schools of Architecture at Ahmedabad (India) and the Physical Planning (1972) in the same city. He is one of the emblems of contemporary Indian architecture, although that has not removed him from a strong commitment to the problems of the poorest people of the country, whose research led him to found the Vastu Shilpa Foundation.
20140309YonaFriedman265x200 Yona Friedman has devoted a part of their efforts to the study of what he calls the "poor world". Analyzing the circumstances that hinder it in this situation, he develops theoretical and technological proposals trying to resolve it, recognizing that the world has adequate resources -though poorly administered- to make a change possible.
20140309TeddyCruz265x200 Teddy Cruz. Guatemalan architect based since 2000 in San Diego, California. He researches and projects in the US-Mexico border region. His actions are suited to the socio-economic impact, identified in his theoretical studies with NGOs on both sides of the border.
20140609EntreNos265x200.jpg Entre Nos Atelier. The Collective was founded in San Jose, Costa Rica in 2010 by architects Michael Smith and Alejandro Vallejo, both share a humanist vision of design with social impact, environmental sensitivity, sustainable and a constant quest for experimentation with local alternative materials. They highlight in their professional and collective careers, recognitions, publications and conferences at national and international level, coupled with teaching in several Latin American universities.