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1 idea, 1 vignette, 1 winner

NOVEMBER SOCIOLOGY OF GREEN

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2009 MINI COMPETITIONS: CHALLENGES AND SCHEDULES: NOVEMBER

Robert Houmoller was born in South Africa in 1981 and grew up in Wales. He has an M.Eng. in Structural Eng. and Arch. from the University of Sheffield, and earned his postgraduate diploma in Arch. from the University of East London in June 2009. Studies for both degrees focused on  architecture’s relationship with society as an important factor for the sustainability of future buildings and cities. He currently teaches as a guest tutor at the University of East London and does design work on a self-employed basis.

Encouraging social change through design-based dialog.

Congratulations to Robert Paul LeFrancois Houmoller, Winner of Our November Competition! Sociology of Green

Robert: "The EL//MSF project is an experiment whereby the idea of creating sustainable communities is applied to an area of East London which is now socially, ethnically and economically divided. It investigates a means of nurturing communities, not just for the sake of communities, but as a way of creating a more environmentally (as well as socially and economically) sustainable East London. It also aims to have at least some humour - humour and delight are connections that the architect has with the end user, and are in my opinion vastly underrated in the
way architects are taught to think."