CURITIBA

Urban greening systems is Duncan Crowley's thing, our Irish architect living in Curitiba, who has worked in 7 different countries and lived in Barcelona for 7 years before moving Brazil.

 

He finished his degree in architecture in Dublin in 2005 with a project that proposed an 18km orbital bicycle greenway and CPUL (continuous productive urban landscape), during that time he helped kickstart a programme of urban food production which has grown and grown, and over half of the greenway proposal has been installed by the city council, with plans for much more this year.

 

He moved to Barcelona in 2006 and worked for some years with an eco-consultancy group EIG (eco intelligent growth),with them he was commissioned by CADS (Catalan sustainability advice board) to propose solutions for urban sustainability. In 2010, he was a finalist in a world architecture competition run by the Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia, his work was published in the book “Self Sufficient City”.

 

Duncan has worked in many firms of varying sizes in Ireland on many different projects. He also participated for many years with the EASA network (European Architectural Students Assembly) and worked on architectural projects of different types in Croatia, Bosnia, Denmark and France.In 2006 he participated in the Venice architecture Bienale and he was invited by Patrick Bouchain to live for some weeks in the Metavilla, the French pavillion and was asked to participate in the residentMETA project at the French bienale by EXYZT.

He moved to Latin America in 2013. Interested in civic ecology, he worked on a mixed use building in Ayacucho, Peru and has been involved in many eco projects in Curitiba, Brazil, most notably the Praca Ciclista (cyclists square) and Park Gomm.