PLAS Graduate Works in Progress
Princeton graduate students, faculty and visiting scholars are invited to learn more about our graduate students' current research. “Pan Americanism at Work”: CINVA and the Portable Brick Machine Camila Reyes Alé, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Architecture This presentation traces the history of the CINVA-RAM, a manual machine for the production of stabilized-earth blocks created at the Centro Interamericano Experimental y de Adiestramiento en Vivienda (CINVA) in Bogotá, Colombia, in 1957. Founded in 1951 as a training center under the “technical cooperation” arm of the D...
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