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Studio at Large: Architecture in Service of Global Communities documents the international and regional community studios organized by Sergio Palleroni, Steve Badanes, and David Riley, 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. These pioneering design/build programs have uniquely 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.

Authors: Sergio Palleroni with Christina Merkelbach

Foreward: Bryan Bell

Publisher: University of Washington Press

Published: October 2004

ISBN: 0295984325 (paperback, 191 pages)