Material Sovereignties in The Western Amazon

Maria Paz Gutierrez is Associate Professor of Architecture in the College of Environmental Design at the University of California, Berkeley. BIOMS, the pioneering research group she founded in 2008, studies the physical and cultural implications of functional natural and living materials. Her work, focused on nature and multifunctional material systems with the aim of addressing twenty-first-century environmental and socioeconomic challenges, has been published in leading scientific journals, including Science and Scientific Reports, and exhibited nationally and internationally, including in the Oslo Architectural Triennale 2014 and the Field Museum in Chicago.