UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., June 12 -- Pennsylvania State University issued the following news release:
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. - Jose Ibarra, assistant professor of architecture in the Stuckeman School at Penn State's College of Arts and Architecture, has received funding from the prestigious Graham Foundation to conduct fieldwork across the Andes mountains in South America. The project will study ancient Andean terraces, canals, salt flats and carved-stone sites as sophisticated environmental infrastructures - systems that coordinate water, soil, altitude and seasonal rhythms - and ask what they can teach contemporary architectural practice about designing with climate.
Titled "Andean Ecologies, Cosmologies, and Fictions across Chile, Bolivia, ...