5 - Books, Lectures, Workshop, Educational Programme

Pouchulu's books can be found below. For articles, magazines and press information visit Pouchulu's works here (you'll be re-directed outside this website).

Habitat Change Lecture

The Habitat Change Lecture is a two hours presentation about up-to-date environmental facts in relation with architecture and urbanism, explaining principles of climate and oceanography, pointing how our Habitat is deteriorating because of consumerism. Environmental paradigms related to Habitat Loss are explained.

Habitat Change Workshop

The Organic Architecture Workshop is offered as an intensive one week design workshop for undergraduate and graduate students of architecture. In the first two days they receive up-to-date facts about Earth's biology, including concepts mentioned above. During days three to five they explore, analyse and sketch solutions for environmental paradigms: Students are urged to create straightforward concepts. Each proposal is exposed and discussed in groupal Crits.

OAHU - Organic Architecture Habitat Unit

The OAHU ¹, Organic Architecture Habitat Unit is as a one year architecture course for last-year students or graduates. It is a design unit focused on a deep study of the current Earth's Habitat Loss crisis. Pouchulu offers six lectures on a roll. Students receive up-to-date facts about geological, climate and oceanographic principles related to Organic Architecture and Urbanism. They work on one short design exercise and a final project. They are urged to use audacity to present architectural solutions, to solve the six paradigms: mobility, energy, materiality, freedom.

Six of One

1 - Stay away from cars in cities: walking, bikes, mono-vehicles and trains can save what's left of the landscape. Since 1896 30 million people were killed in car accidents; cars are great but pollute and disfigure the pedestrian public space.

2 - Avoid plastic in Habitat, furniture, packaging, clothing, tools and toys; reject fake imitations that impersonate wool, cotton or leather. Real, prints, lithography, engravings, books, drawings, films, records, blackboards, stimulate mind and thinking; these technologies are recyclable and sustainable.

3 - Promote low-voltage power.

4 - Get food from your area. 30% of global pollution will be gone when the majority of food is produced around each city. Trans-oceanic wind-powered ships will set sail again, transporting items around the globe.

5 - Keep away from the so called "social" networks: like any net, their primary purpose is to catch a victim: you. They control your behaviour, suffocating your liberty by saturating your mind with useless data.

6 - Focus in learning, educating your children in the Arts, Geometry and Nature, carefully protecting the highlights of western civilization: Freedom, Rights, and the long forgotten individual Responsibility.

The main goal of the Organic Architecture Programme is to plant a common-sense, empirical and sensible seed in the spirit of young professionals.

Contact here: instituto@pouchulu.com

Note 1: Oahu is also the third largest of the Hawaiian islands where Honolulu, capital of Hawaii, is located. It is the site of Pearl Harbor... quite a coincidence: our OAHU creates a base for defending Earth's Habitat.

Banner photo: Earth from Apollo 11, July 1969, image AS11-36-5295, courtesy of NASA; Inserted photo: Baobab, Senegal, Afrique Occidental Francaise, timbre c.1954, from Pouchulu's stamp collection.

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