The Po River, a tributary of China’s great Yellow River, divides the village of Maosi. In the rainy season it is common for the river water to rise 16.5 feet (5 m).
When architect Sergio Palleroni and his students arrived at the site of their first design/build project in Mexico, they were greeted only by a simple sign stating, “A school will be built here.”
A few miles north of Nha Trang lies the small seaside community of Cuu Ham in Luong Son Village, whose main income derives from fishing and agriculture.
The Gando Primary School was the result of one architect’s mission to give the children of his village better educational opportunities than he had as a young boy.
Set deep in the Indian Himalayas on the western edge of the Tibetan plateau, Ladakh, or “Little Tibet,” is considered one of the last strongholds of indigenous Buddhist Tibetan culture.
Set deep in the Indian Himalayas on the western edge of the Tibetan plateau, Ladakh, or “Little Tibet,” is considered one of the last strongholds of indigenous Buddhist Tibetan culture.