Intestines of a Building: Aziza Chaouni on Architecture’s Systems and Resources

Anti-seismic earth brick house. Image © Aziza Chaouni ProjectsIn an age so obsessed with skincare and appearances, few architects are truly interested in the intestines of our buildings. With a practice rooted in contextual awareness and technical pragmatism, sensitive to the needs of the people it serves and to resource limitations, Moroccan architect Aziza Chaouni focuses on the hidden systems that allow architecture to be. Over the past two decades, she has been working on projects acros