Years before she became an architect, Anna Heringer traveled to Bangladesh as a young volunteer with Dipshikha, a nongovernment organization dedicated to rural development. “I got to know Bangladesh by spending a year studying its agricultural ways, its schools, and the health issues facing its people,” recalls the German-born architect, who has since built a series of small projects in the village of Rudrapur.
Instead of immediately focusing on the built environment, Heringer looked first at the country’s social structure and tried to understand it from the ground up. “I looked at it from a sustainability perspective,” she explains. “What are the problems and what are the opportunities here?”
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