Astrid Cam Aguinaga

Astrid Cam Aguinaga is a Master’s in Architecture II and Master’s in Urban Planning dual degree student at the GSD. A Peruvian native, she completed her Bachelors in Architecture at University Ricardo Palma in Lima. During her undergraduate studies, she became interested in architecture typologies of self-built housing in informal settlements in the context of Latin America and explored issues of low-income neighborhood development and sustainability. Prior to coming to the GSD, she collaborated with the Architectural Association of London in Haiti on designing core housing in lightweight materials for a government-sponsored post-earthquake reconstruction pilot program. She is currently involved in collaborative research on resiliency issues related to grassroots community responses to flooding in the Caribbean and Southeast Asia, in addition to her previous research efforts on land grabbing issues related to forest conservation in Patagonia.”