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Mexico’s traditional housing "...how they relate to the habitat and the land; how the builders perfectly understood the cycles of the environment, the seasons, the types of wood available in the nearby hills." COMUNAL drawings of vernacular and contemporary typologies in the Mayan community of Motul, Yucatan. "They think it’s unsafe because it uses biodegradable materials, but in reality, materials like concrete and steel degrade much more rapidly in some environments." Tzeltal house. Credit: Onnis Luque "For example, the government says you have to have a living room, kitchen, and two bedrooms, when the reality is that you can’t divide space like that in rural houses because these big rooms are where people put the harvest, thresh the corn, and dry the coffee. There’s a relationship between the land, agriculture, and living space." Mayan house in construction. Credit: Onnis Luque Social production of housin...