Urban environmental education architecture
Introduction
New Horizons for the Architecture of Communities (NHAC) by its acronym is a non-profit civil association founded in Oaxaca, Mexico, legally formed in 2007, with the objective of incorporating researchers, teachers, students and specialists committed to promoting architecture and urban development in harmony with the environment, respect for cultural identity, green construction and sustainability in general.
Goals
Given the demographic growth, the need for housing and urban infrastructure, the amorphous growth of towns, the negative environmental and social impact of current urbanization practices, which are occurring throughout the planet, but which are very sensitively affected by financial insufficiency and present a serious deterioration in developing countries, a group of students and teachers from the Autonomous University "Benito Juárez" of Oaxaca Oaxaca, Mexico, led by Architect Pastor Alfonso Sánchez Cruz, was organized as the association “New Horizons for the Architecture of Communities” with the following objectives:[1]
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Organization
Contenido
La asociación se consolidó con la participación de múltiples interesados en el tema, del área docente y civil mexicana e internacional, organizados en:.
International scientific committee
In support of its research and dissemination activity through Horizontes Magazine, the association has the support of a scientific committee made up of experts and teachers in the field such as: Dr. Camila Mileto (Polytechnic University of Valencia), Dr. Eugenia María Azevedo Salomao (Federal University of Bahia, Brazil), Fernando Vegas López-Manzanares (University of Valencia, Spain, University of Venice, Italy, University of Córdoba, Argentina, University of Tirana, Albania), Dr. Giovanna Liberotti (University of L'Aquila, Italy, UNAM-Mexico), Dr. Luis Fernando Guerrero Baca (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Azcapotzalco, ENCRyM-INAH in Churubusco, UAM-Azcapotzalco), Dr. Natalia Jorquera Silva (University of Florence, Italy, University of Chile), Dr. Julio Vargas Neumann (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú), Dr. Francisco Uviña-Contreras (University of New Mexico, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Center for the Study of the Preservation & Restoration of Cultural Properties (ICCROM) Italy), Dr. Luis Silvio Ríos Cabrera (National University of Asunción, Paraguay, Technical University of Aquisgran (Aachen) in Germany), Dr. Félix Jové Sandoval, (University of Valladolid, Spain), Dr. Rodolfo Rotondaro (National University of Mar del Plata), M.A. Zazanda Salcedo Gutiérrez (Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, La Paz, Bolivia, CEPIES–UMSA, ENCRyM–INAH México), Dr. Olimpia Niglio, (University of Naples Federico II, Italy)[5].