Studio at Large: Architecture in Service of Global Communities
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For more than a decade, architects and students from the University of Washington have been working with squatter communities in Mexico, migrant laborers in eastern Washington, and Indian reservations of the inland West as well as communities in Cuba, India, and Africa to provide housing, schools, clinics, and other vital structures. Led by Sergio Palleroni, Steve Badanes, and David Riley, these pioneering design/build programs have combined innovative architectural training with cross-cultural immersion, social activism, and environmental science, using design skills and hands-on construction projects to confront poverty and urgent social problems one building at a time.
Studio at Large documents the international and regional community studios organized by Sergio Palleroni and his colleagues, typically held in intensive ten-week builds in marginalized communities. Involving community members and students, these studios promote maximum use of recycled or inexpensive, locally available materials, as well as lighting and energy systems that reduce utility costs and promote resource conservation. They serve as models for making architectural education relevant to urgent social problems, helping communities mobilize indigenous resources and social capital to develop long-term sustainable practices that protect rather than erode cultural identity, dignity, and stability.
Sergio Palleroni is visiting associate professor at the School of Architecture, University of Texas, Austin, and the founding director of the University of Washington BASIC Initiative. Christina Merkelbach is a designer and former design/build student. Bryan Bell is a founder of Design Corps and editor of Good Deeds, Good Design: Community Service through Architecture.
About the Author
Sergio Palleroni was a professor at the University of Washington for 12 years and the founder of the UW Basic Initiative, a multidisciplinary fieldwork program which each year challenges students to apply their education at the University of Washington in service of the problems facing marginalized communities throughout the world. He has worked on housing and community development in the developing world since the 1970's both for not-for-profit agencies and governmental and international agencies such as UNESCO, World Bank. In the last two decades he has applied this experience to establishing programs in housing and development at the University of Texas Austin and Penn State University as well as the University of Washington.
Studio at Large: Architecture in Service of Global Communities,Bryan Bell,Sergio Palleroni,Christina Merkelbach,University of Washington Press,0295984325,Architecture,Building,Design & Construction,Design & Drafting,Domestic,Methods & Materials,Northwest, Pacific,Planning,Public, Commercial, or Industrial Buildings,Sociology - Rural,Study & Teaching,Study and teaching,Sustainable architecture,Third World Development
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