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~PATTI STOUTER~

Patti Stouter is a landscape architect based in New Mexico who has vigorously promoted the importance of the understanding and incorporating cultural patterns into emergency aid and reconstruction development as well as the consideration of the use of earthen building systems.  In "Haitian Wisdom for Aid Buildings" Patti writes--"Haitians have built communities brilliantly adapted to their climate and society."

"Residents of a disturbed area desire the built environment to embody their history, social networks, and values. Traditional communities are combinations of buildings that have developed slowly from the values and knowledge of the local people. The signals and symbols of social status or other meaning may seem subtle to outsiders, but they are obvious to residents."

 

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