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	Podcast:		TEDTalks Art
	Episode:		Architecture at home in its community \| Xavier Vilalta
	Category:		Arts
	Duration:		00:07:44
	Publish Date:		2013-10-25 10:00:08
	Description:		When TED Fellow Xavier Vilalta was commissioned to create a multistory shopping mall in Addis Ababa, he panicked. Other centers represented everything he hated about contemporary architecture: wasteful, glass towers requiring tons of energy whose design had absolutely nothing to do with Africa. In this charming talk, Vilalta shows how he champions an alternative approach: to harness nature, reference design tradition and create beautiful, modern, iconic buildings fit for a community.
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