# Stunning buildings made from raw, imperfect materials

- Institution: TED
- Department: TED Salon: Radical Craft
- Speaker: Débora Mesa Molina
- Year: 2018
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Engineering, Art, architecture and design
- Source: [TED](https://www.ted.com/talks/debora_mesa_molina_stunning_buildings_made_from_raw_imperfect_materials)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

What would it take to reimagine the limits of architecture? Débora Mesa Molina offers some answers in this breathtaking, visual tour of her work, showing how structures can be made with overlooked materials and unconventional methods -- or even extracted from the guts of the earth. "The world around us is an infinite source of inspiration if we are curious enough to see beneath the surface of things," she says.

## Lectures

1. [Stunning buildings made from raw, imperfect materials](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/debora_mesa_molina_stunning_buildings_made_from_raw_imperfect_materials/3845e62d4578), 12 min (TED's player)