Making an Impact: “It’s not the shape of a building, it’s what it does to people”

expanding design practices, No Density, PLANE—SITE, Politics and economics, Southern Coexistences, Talk, Tatiana Bilbao

Aesthetics, Affordable Housing, Architect’s role, Architectural theory, Capitalism, Critique, Cultural agitator, Culture, Design-based research, Discipline, Empowering society, Empowerment machines, Materials, Mexico, Raw materials, Social contributor, Social culture, Social housing, Social sustainability, Southern Coexistences, talk, Teaching, Time Space Existence

Curated and produced by PLANE—SITE, this video series features interviews with prominent architects reflecting on the topics of TIME SPACE EXISTENCE.

This interview series has been made possible with the support of the European Cultural Centre.

Videographer: Michael Waldrep

Tatiana Bilbao suggests that the architect has a moral responsibility to foreground people over profit. In her words, “It’s not the shape of a building, it’s what it does to people”, and architecture is the act of “making places and spaces, by people, for people”.