MiCultura shares experiences about history and architecture and Panamanian housing styles

Panama, 5 May 2020. Experts at this and the past of Panamanian architecture and housing have been united with the Ministry of Culture (MiCultura) to conduct the virtual event "Tropical architecture and Pandemia," about the different architecture styles that have been adapted to our climate throughout the country's history.

Dr. Marixa Lasso, Director of Research and Publications at MiCultura, will lead panelists, including Dr. Silvia Arroyo and architects Rodrigo Guardia and Darién Montañez, at this interesting academic event, to conduct Thursday May 7 at 9: 30 a.m. from the virtual platforms of the ministry (Facebook and Youtube).

"The quarantine has been keeping us at home and it's a time to think about the relationship between architecture and environment. How are our houses? What were they? What traditions should we rethink? What to get back?" Lasso emphasized.

The expert group will discuss the architectural styles that have been adapted to the Panamanian climate, from the indigenous housing and the quincha house to the colonial housing and the modern buildings of the mid-20th century that have created a tropical modernity thought for the heat and moisture of our climate.

Through this type of experience, the Ministry of Culture aims to publicize research work about Panamanian culture to a widely and widely varied public that increasingly wants to know about our history and conduct as a society throughout centuries and centuries.