Fall 2025 Tecnoglass Lecture Series: Manuel Aires Mateusi, Aries Mateus

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Housing for All

In an era defined by climate instability, geopolitical realignments, and profound social transformations, HOUSING FOR ALL examines how architecture can transcend the provision of shelter to actively cultivate community, resilience, and a sense of belonging. This series interrogates how dwelling can be understood not as a privilege afforded to some but as a fundamental cultural and civic right, essential to the equitable shaping of our shared urban and social futures.

Architecture at its best responds to context, elevates everyday life, and creates space for collective dignity. Invited architects, Felippi Wyssen (Switzerland), Elizabeth Whittaker (U.S.), Jean-Christophe Quinton (France), Aires Mateus (Portugal), and Coldefy (France), share a dedication to housing that is both precise and poetic, personal and civic. Their work emphasizes material honesty, environmental resilience, and social engagement over spectacle, designing homes that carry meaning and empathy.

Whether through Felippi Wyssen’s calibrated rhythm of light and ritual, Whittaker’s fusion of innovation and ecology, Quinton’s lyrical spatial essays, Aires Mateus’ sculpted voids of presence, or Coldefy’s imagining of density as opportunity, each speaker proposes new frameworks for how we live together. This series is both homage and inquiry, a call to rethink housing not as a commodity but as a vital condition for human flourishing.

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