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3 weeks ago | 
archpaper.com | Natalia Torija Nieto |Kristine Klein
Nestled among chili fields and palm tree groves, the new Vipp guesthouse in the artist-driven coastal town of Todos Santos, Mexico, is hidden in plain sight behind a modest wattle fence. Built in earth tones that mimic the local landscape, the house sits on a slanted rocky terrain interspersed with cacti and thorny shrubs.
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3 weeks ago | 
dwell.com | Natalia Torija Nieto
View 8 PhotosDwell 24 alum Manny Rionda fled from the city to his family’s finca during Covid lockdowns and devised a home for himself there where he could live among the trees. View 8 PhotosIn the spring of 2020, when Covid lockdowns began, Manny Rionda retreated from his home in Guatemala City to his family’s finca, or ranch, in the highlands 35 miles to the west.
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3 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Natalia Torija Nieto
Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what's in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience.Generate Key TakeawaysDwell 24 alum Manny Rionda fled from the city to his family’s finca during Covid lockdowns and devised a home for himself there where he could live among the trees.
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2 months ago | 
dwell.com | Natalia Torija Nieto
View 15 PhotosIn 2011, Scott and Angela Damman purchased a property outside Mérida, Mexico, that had fallen into disrepair. But by reusing materials and turning to local resources, they created their dream home—and a successful design business. View 15 PhotosAs soon as you drive out of the traffic of Mérida, Mexico, the lush jungle awaits. That’s what Angela and Scott Damman found when they bought a 22-acre hacienda in Telchac Pueblo, Yucatán, 33 miles northeast of the city.
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2 months ago | 
yahoo.com | Natalia Torija Nieto
In 2011, Scott and Angela Damman purchased a property outside Mérida, Mexico, that had fallen into disrepair. But by reusing materials and turning to local resources, they created their dream home—and a successful design business. As soon as you drive out of the traffic of Mérida, Mexico, the lush jungle awaits. That’s what Angela and Scott Damman found when they bought a 22-acre hacienda in Telchac Pueblo, Yucatán, 33 miles northeast of the city.
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Feb 26, 2025 | 
aninteriormag.com | Natalia Torija Nieto
Nestled among chili fields and palm tree groves, the new Vipp guesthouse in the artist-driven coastal town of Todos Santos, Mexico, is hidden in plain sight behind a modest wattle fence. Built in earth tones that mimic the local landscape, the house sits on a slanted rocky terrain interspersed with cacti and thorny shrubs.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
archpaper.com | Natalia Torija Nieto
From October 31 to November 2 in Bogotá and Tenjo, Colombia, I joined a group of artists, activists, architects, and curators, among other guests, at the Architectures of Planetary Well-Being biannual symposium. The event was organized—free and open to the public—by re:arc institute, a Copenhagen-based architectural nonprofit. For the past three years, it has been working to enable climate action by funding site-specific projects and radical pedagogies around architecture.
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Aug 24, 2024 | 
mdpi.com | Aigli G Vakrakou |Evangelia Kourepini |Natalia Torija Nieto |Ioannis Skordos
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Jun 12, 2024 | 
dwell.com | Natalia Torija Nieto
View 6 PhotosAmid a war, designers and activists are fighting to ensure the country’s heritage doesn’t disappear with reconstruction—and in some cases, they’re assuming the role of social-worker. View 6 PhotosIn April 2022, just two months into Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, at the second UN Forum of Mayors, British architect Norman Foster presented the mayor of the eastern city of Kharkiv with a masterplan for its reconstruction.
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Mar 15, 2024 | 
archpaper.com | Natalia Torija Nieto
In order to shift the ways in which we study, write, and build architecture, the archive must be decolonized and rid of its canonical structure and inaccessibility. But the collection and piecing together of materials can take decades. Entire generations might go by before globally recognizing the work of groundbreaking practitioners that hold the necessary tools for the present.
