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14 hours ago

How mosquitoes and malaria helped shaped the whereabouts of early humankind

Human settlement patterns have been significantly influenced by climate, landscape, and disease, particularly malaria, over tens of thousands of years.
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6 months ago

Shifting Sediments: Rivers as an Architectural and Cultural Catalyst

Rivers generate a distinct typology of architecture bound by design threads of material practice, environmental adaptation, cultural symbolism, and imagination. Each river system produces a unique ecosystem where water, soil, vegetation, and settlement converge to form a living network. Designing within this environment requires a capacity to read movement rather than resist it, to build on uncertain ground, and to understand permanence as a balance in motion.
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