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In the Winter of 2019, I had an opportunity to study with David (Dave) Miller from the Miller|Hull Partnership. Having great enthusiasm for Latin American architecture, Dave created this course based on his years of frequent travels to South America. The course was very loosely structured because there was so much to be discussed, be it vernacular architecture, public housing, world affairs, or international economics. The research topics to be conducted by students were also open-ended, which gave me a chance to delve deeper into something completely different that I was pursuing: Metabolism.
As it turned out, back in the early 1970's, Team Metabolists from Japan - which was comprised of Kikutake Kiyonori, Kurokawa Kisho, and Maki Fumihiko - participated in an all-star international collaboration hosted by the Peruvian government called "PREVI". It was by happenstance that I had started reading Rem Koolhaas' "Project Japan: Metabolism Talks" a few weeks prior to topic selection. When I got to project PREVI, I knew instantly what I'd be writing about for this class. However, my research was not limited at only Team Metabolists; it covers much more than just Peru. It discusses background information such as the disolution of CIAM, the rise of Japanese architecture through international expositions like WoDeCo (1960) and Osaka Expo (1970), a rather tumultuous period in politics in South America; and it also talks about the current status of this grand project as well as the outlook of incremental housing and what this strategy means in the 21st century. There was a lot more to dig deeper into that the contraints of a paper such as this did not allow me to.
Here is a copy of the paper.