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Coming to Guatemala? [SERGIO PALLERONI, National Design Awards, Sustainable Bldg Practices, UT Austin
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Catherine Todd
To: palleroni@mail.utexas.edu
Re: BaSIC Initiative.org ~ classes, workshop info?
SERGIO PALLERONI, National Design Awards, Sustainable Bldg Practices,
University of Texas at Austin
Dear Professor Sergio,
Thanks for the friend add on FaceBook! I had to look you up in email (FaceBook copied all my contacts and put them here!) What a surprise... I was so pleased to find that I had written to you and commented about your excellent program in sustainable building practices.
I had hoped to come to Austin and take some courses, but cedar fever "did me in." So I'm down here in Panajachel, Lake Atitlan, Guatemala, getting ready to build some sustainable buildings using different techniques, one of which may be the PuraVidaAtitlan.org project techniques of stuffed, recycled plastic water bottles... it's really pretty incredible. I have four very nice, small building lots across the road from Calle Santa Catarina on the edge of Jucanya, Panajachel, with a lake view just a little ways up the road.
They are small but perfect lots for sustainable building practices, and since I've not started any more building projects in the states due to the downturn in the U.S. housing market, it's a perfect time to start using some of the ecologically sound techniques I have been dreaming about for years. It's good to be able to do things with a variety of materials that are readily available and using local hand labor to make something for oneself and the community, with no Lowe's credit card in sight!
I'd like to plan this small project (4 to 6 houses and community building) in the best way possible, so hope you may have something on your website, or pointers for the right direction...
I am also hoping you are at some point heading this way! Lots of humanitarian groups doing good work around here. Would love to see your group here if you haven't already come...
I have pasted an article about your program and the award it won below from inhabit.com: "SERGIO PALLERONI, National Design Awards, Sustainable Bldg Practices, University of Texas at Austin." It's great to get recognition that is so richly deserved, for building practices and design that is so necessary to us all.
I'll be back to NC in August and visiting San Antonio in Aug. or Sept. Perhaps there is something going on around sustainable building practices nearby or in Austin?
Yours, in art and architecture, Catherine Todd
Oxford NC and Panajachel, Lake Atitlan, Guatemala
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Catherine Todd
3007 Bent Tree Dr. Oxford NC 27565
H 919.693.0853 U.S. cell 919.605.0727,
Panajachel, Lake Atitlan, Guatemala cell (dial 011 from the U.S.) 502.4198.7184 (new 6-08)
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http://www.inhabitat.com/2005/10/25/sergio-palleroni/
Inhabit, October 25, 2005
SERGIO PALLERONI
by NK
Last Thursday, the National Design Awards were announced at the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, honoring the best of American Design in ten broad categories including Architecture, Fashion, and Communication. While we applaud Patagonia, who won the Corporate Achievement Award for their environmental initiatives, we are particularly appreciative of the accolades for Sergio Palleroni, who won a Special Jury Commendation for his work at the University of Texas Center for Sustainable Development. Palleroni runs design/build studios in disadvantaged communities worldwide, teaching participants how to best exploit locally available resources and to build long term, sustainable developments.
Professor Palleroni and the UT Sustainable Design and Development Workshop will be showcased next year as part of a 6-part series on PBS called "Architecture=e2," to be broadcast for Earth-Day. The segment, which will be entitled, "Design Like You Give a Damn," will center on Palleroni's work to provide assistance in areas hit by disaster, which seems particularly appropriate given recent global events. Currently, Palleroni is working with a student team to produce 19,000 homes for single mothers in rural Yaqui, Mexico.
+ National Design Awards, Sergio Palleroni
+ University of Texas School of Architecture eNews
Via The New York Times
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On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 6:05 PM, Catherine Todd
Green for All (podcast), introduction by Brad Pitt, class discussion with Sergio Palleroni re: Austin TX Hispanic district
Hosted at www.design-e2.com June 19, 2006 - 32 views
New PBS Series on Sustainable Design
http://www.design-e2.com/podcasts/Video/green_for_all.mov
Learn more about the inspirational architect Sergio Palleroni, who works with poor and underdeveloped communities around the world
More info from House & Garden, Feb 2007 article, pg. 34.
The University of Texas at Austin
Center for Sustainable Development, Building Sustainable Communities Initiative (BaSIC) founded in 1995; it takes students into marginalized areas (such as South Dakota)... (see article for rest).
http://www.basicinitiative.org/Contact.htm
file:///Users/Catherine/Desktop/Basic%20Initiative.org%20%20U%20of%20Tx%20at%20Austin/Green%20for%20All%20-%20podcast.Sergio%20Palleroni.html
On 1/19/07, catherinetodd < ctodd1000@gmail.com> wrote:
BaSIC Initiative.org
http://www.basicinitiative.org/Contact.htm
Contact
Sergio Palleroni
Visiting Associate Professor
The University of Texas at Austin
School of Architecture
1 University Station B7500
Austin, TX 78712
Tel 512/471-7878
palleroni@mail.utexas.edu
Dear Professor Palleroni,
I am interesting in signing up or auditing one of your Sustainable building courses. I am in San Antonio and Austin for the next year or so, in between farm, landscape and home building projects in North Carolina and various endeavors in Guatemala.
I am very interested in the work you are doing, and have been licensed for over 20 years in landscape and outdoor construction, and real estate in North Carolina. I would like to learn more about "sustainable building" concepts which are critically important to our future, and then put these practices TO WORK here in the United States and Latin America, or wherever needed. For the lasts ten years I have worked with a Latin American crew in NC, speaking Spanish all day, so have sufficient rudimentary Guatemalan Spanish to "get the work done." Plus enough understanding to hold conversations regarding regulations, religion, spirituality, construction, agriculture, weather, tools, materials, plants, animals, with some art, music, newsworthy and family events.
Please let me know where I can find more information about calendar events, course dates, sign up, fees, auditing, workshops, etc. There is some information on your website, but I am not sure of what would pertain to a grown person like me or where to go to actually sign up. The regular "registrar's office" at the University of Texas? Any chance of being a part-time student or auditing a class?
I saw a notice about your program in the current issue of House & Garden magazine, Feb 2007, which I picked up at the airport on my way to San Antonio. Excellent!
Sincerely, Catherine Todd
Catherine S. Todd,
6754 Leaning Oak Rd. Oxford NC, 27565 and San Antonio Texas USA,
Tel's: NC 919-693-0853, U.S. cell 919-605-0727, GUA cell: dial from the U.S. 011-502-5382-4694, ctodd1000@gmail.com
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