Lola Ben-Alon is an Assistant Professor at Colombia GSAPP, 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 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 founded 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.
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