“How Do We Design Experiences for the People?”: Pedro Rivera Discusses Housing Policies in Brazil
This feature has been created in collaboration with urbanNext, a multi-platform aimed at developing, disseminating and distributing content centered on architecture through a focus on the contemporary human milieu and its challenges. Architizer features a weekly discussion from urbanNext’s journals to support its investigation of urban conditions and innovations facing the architectural profession today. “The way that we live … goes much further than buildings,” says architect Pedro Rivera in an interview with urbanNext. “How do we eat in a city? How do we supply food? I think this is architecture, it’s to think about how we feed ourselves, how we feed our environment.” The Brazilian architect, who is a founding principal at Rua Arquitetos in Rio de Janeiro, is of the belief that architects are not only responsible for building structures — they are also responsible for “designing systems,” systems that consider elements beyond what we need to live and support how we experience life. Rivera, who is also the director of Columbia University’s global think tank for urban design Studio-X Rio, is motivated in his practice as an observer of urban anthropology. Citing the significant inequality he identifies in his home country, Rivera sees there is big room ... , urbanNext .net, read more http://ift.tt/2bBQVak
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