Lola Ben-Alon: Earth and Bio-Based Building Materials

Lola Ben-Alon is an Assistant Professor at Columbia GSAPP and director of the Natural Material Lab and the Building Science and Technology curriculum. She specializes in earth and bio-based building materials.

Lola has a background in biomedical engineering, civil engineering, and curatorial design, and she shares her experience cofounding a lab at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology called the Experimental Art and Architecture Lab. She shares how her experiences formed the basis for who she is today, how she found her lexicon for working in a site-specific, participatory practice, what is currently happening at the Natural Material Lab, and how we can implement changes in our architecture practice to include earth and bio-based materials.

Lola's Links:

lolabenalon.com

Columbia GSAPP

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