Berlanda, Tomà
Changing places: Mwito School in Nyamasheke, Rwanda by Creative Assemblages - 23 February 2021 - London EMAP Publishing Limited 2021
On the mappingrefugeespaces.com website, created by Nerea Amorós Elorduy to present research for her 2018 doctoral dissertation at the Bartlett, there is one visually powerful map, among many others, that locates long-term refugee camps in the geological formation of the East African Rift.
The Catalan architect’s involvement with this part of the world began more than a dozen years ago. Historically a place of conflict, the Great Lakes region, and the Albertine Rift valley in particular, are a fascinating laboratory for the disciplines of architecture, landscape and urbanism. As Jean-Pierre Chrétien wrote in 2003, this fracture in the Earth’s crust is ‘a crucial region for research … because the tragedies of its present are very much a function of the political manipulation of its past’.
ARCHITECTURE GENERAL (AR-GEN)
Changing places: Mwito School in Nyamasheke, Rwanda by Creative Assemblages - 23 February 2021 - London EMAP Publishing Limited 2021
On the mappingrefugeespaces.com website, created by Nerea Amorós Elorduy to present research for her 2018 doctoral dissertation at the Bartlett, there is one visually powerful map, among many others, that locates long-term refugee camps in the geological formation of the East African Rift.
The Catalan architect’s involvement with this part of the world began more than a dozen years ago. Historically a place of conflict, the Great Lakes region, and the Albertine Rift valley in particular, are a fascinating laboratory for the disciplines of architecture, landscape and urbanism. As Jean-Pierre Chrétien wrote in 2003, this fracture in the Earth’s crust is ‘a crucial region for research … because the tragedies of its present are very much a function of the political manipulation of its past’.
ARCHITECTURE GENERAL (AR-GEN)