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Escobedo Tallera Siqueiros at the Cultural Center in Cuernavaca, Mexico, 2019.
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“The Fabricated Landscape,” opening June 26 at Carnegie Museum of Art, is designed to highlight the growing diversity and ingenuity in the field of contemporary architecture.
The exhibition will include installations from 10 international practices, many of which will be debuting new work for the first time in the United States.
“This is a very important moment for all of them,” said Raymund Ryan, curator-at-large for the Oakland museum’s Heinz Architectural Center, where the exhibition will run through Jan. 17.
Get to know ten projects from around the world that use participatory design and engage the community in project development as their main collaborators.
The architect paving the way for women with clay
Award-winning German architect Anna Heringer has a vision to improve the world through architecture. She uses natural construction materials and is causing a sensation with her earthen buildings.
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Talking to the Louisiana Channel, German architect Anna Heringer outlines the way she works and her multi-disciplinary approach to architectural practice. Growing up in a small town at the Austrian-Bavarian border close to Salzburg - Heringer spent a year living and working in Bangladesh at the age of 19, a place that is now home to a majority of her office s projects. Heringer describes herself as a mix of things in addition to being an architect, describing herself as an activist and a development worker - using her creativity to explore ideas in a variety of forms and media.
As an architect, Anna is very conscious of the value of understanding the local context and sense of place when undertaking a new project, linking to her passion for creating architectural responses rooted in sustainability. For me, it is essential that the materials are local, the energy sources are local, and with energy sources, I think of human labor . Saying that if human labor is not used, we c