nomads + nanomaterial

Sheila Kennedy (”Sheila Kennedy is a founding Principal of Kennedy & Violich Architecture, (KVA) an inter-disciplinary practice that explores new relationships between architecture, technology and urbanism in contemporary culture.”) is currently teaching the following studio: Shadow Cities: Nomads + Nanomaterials at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design! (this tells me that I clearly need to finish my thesis!)

Course description excerpts:
“Technology Remix: El Terminal / SHADOW CITIES will reconsider the traditional relationship between building infrastructure and architectural form through the design of a new public bus terminal and market structure in the Centro district of the Mexican city of Zacatecas.”
“Nomads / SHADOW CITIES will study and address the needs of the nomadic Huichol people of Mexico, The Huichol (Wirrarica) are one of the few indigenous groups in Mexico to have maintained a large corpus of Mesoamerican textile weaving, thatch and wood braiding traditions. The Huichol are a nomadic culture, traveling (often on foot) 400 miles on annual journeys to the Pacific and the Sierra Oriental.”

Leading to the other interesting link (I let you explore :) at the University of Michigan: Nomads + Nanomaterial, Sustainable Textile Building Technologies in Architecture