Usina Kuzvartova
In Sao Paulo, Brazil, there is a long history of so called auxiliary technical groups which help the poor to achieve dignified social housing. Engaged architects work among these groups using participation strategies to make design and design process understandable for laymen, to empower communities and to support their self-management. Usina – Work Center for a Habitable Environment is one of these groups, founded already in 1990. Read More
Vasiliki Fragkaki
Architecture being also a social science has to propose and develop solutions for constantly changing human necessities. By providing new forms, orders and shapes of space, architecture aims to embrace simple or complex human activities, as well as offer further possibilities of spatial experience and interaction. Following the contemporary social, economical and environmental transformations architecture is more and more committed to take action in a global framework. Contemporary lifestyles tend to become more urbanized as the global population is concentrated in urban centers and metropolis. Read More