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- 👤 Speaker: Alfonso Ramirez Ponce (Architect and Professor at Univerisdad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM) )
- 📅 Date & Time: Wednesday 27 October 2010, 17:00 - 18:00
- 📍 Venue: Engineering Department - **LR6**
Abstract
Alfonso Ramírez Ponce is a Mexican architect who has explored for many years and in depth several low-cost and sustainable construction techniques through the use of regional materials such as clay brick, in projects built throughout Latin America. He currently lectures in the “Autonoma University of Mexico” (UNAM), and has been an invited professor in Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Panama, Uruguay, Singapore, Italy and Spain. He is the author and co-author of more than 200 articles and several books on Architecture. His research and several of his projects have won diverse awards, including the “Armando Mestre Medal” in Cuba, and also the first prize in the “Competition for the Technology Transfer for Popular habitat” organized by CYTED . He is also a member of the “Academia Nacional de Arquitectura”, and the “National System of Art and Culture Creators” of México.
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Alfonso Ramirez Ponce (Architect and Professor at Univerisdad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM) )
Wednesday 27 October 2010, 17:00-18:00