·       INTRODUCTION
·       CONSTRUCTION IN STONE
·       CONSTRUCTION IN EARTH: TAPIA, ADOBE, AND BAHAREQUE
·       CONSTRUCTION IN WOOD
·       CONSTRUCTION IN VEGETABLE FIBERS
·       TENTS
·       A MANNER OF CONCLUSION

CONSTRUCTION IN VEGETABLE FIBERS

Drying shed for tobacco	Interior view of rood in cañabrava

Coastal ranch	Roof made of palm
Colombia.

Colombia. Huts in Tayrona Park. Interior view of roof made of palm

Perú. Fishermen.

Perú. Fishermen

Titicaca Lake. Community housing made of aurochs.

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Titicaca Lake. Community housing made of aurochs.

Definition of "Topophilia: "love for the place."
Yi-Fu Tuan

"Landscape’s most crucial condition is considered to be space, but its deepest theme is time"
Rebecca Solnit

It is characteristic of tropical climates, where there is an abundance of grasses, palms and graminaceous, to produce a type of living, fresh, light, of rapid execution whose character is perhaps less durable. However, there are all types of exceptions to the anterior like the case of the floating islands of Titicaca Lake, built with cattails from the same lake.

"The home is an extension of the soul and of the spirit."
Rina Swenzell

"I like to think of landscape, not as a fixed place, but as a path that is unwinding before my eyes, under my feet."
Gretel Erlich

"Tourism is the most alienated form of experiencing a place."
Lucy Lippard.

"Space defines the landscape, and space combined with memory define the place"
Lucy Lippard.

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