Laura Belik is a PhD Candidate in Architecture at University of California, Berkeley. She holds an MA in Design Studies from Parsons- The New School and a B.Arch in Architecture and Urban Planning from Escola da Cidade (São Paulo/ Brazil) . Laura’s most recent publications are the book chapter “Mobilizing Labor for Infrastructure in Northeast Brazil, 1915–1932” in The Routledge Handbook of Infrastructure Design (2022), edited by Joseph Heathcott; and the paper “Paxiúba: Traditional Housing in the Western Amazon” published at the Architectural Theory Review (2021).