The context is Paraisopolis, a 70,000 inhabitant city that is less a place or even an alignment of places than a condition and perhaps an orientation of what makes up today's cities in the global south. In a sense, the announcement of a global south is premature as even now events are unfolding in real time towards ever accelerating global and local conditions. As the studio title implies, urban think tank wants to focus on the culture of architecture in Latin America and the studio semester was particularly oriented as a kind of AAD post-housing studio.