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Award-winning architect builds 'half houses', says slums should inspire

2016-05-27 07:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Award-winning Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena wants city governments worldwide to stop fighting urban migration and look to Latin America's sprawling slums as inspiration for new housing. The winner of the 2016 Pritzker, regarded as the Nobel Prize of architecture, Aravena says the vast 'favelas' in cities such as Rio de Janeiro highlight human resilience and the instinctive capacity for home-building. He said if cities are going to successfully absorb the projected 1.5 billion new arrivals...

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