2024-05-02T05:05:45-04:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150189211/james-rojas-combines-design-and-engagement-through-latino-urbanism Orhan Ayyüce 2020-03-12T11:44:00-04:00 >2022-03-14T10:33:29-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/1d/1dbc735e94dd7f7b5548b20d1076a84b.png?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Architects are no longer builders but healers. They have to get off their computers and out of their cars to heal the social, physical and environmental aspects of our landscape. What architects build is not a finished product but a part of a city&rsquo;s changing eco-system.</p></em><br /><br /><p><a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/424484/james-rojas" target="_blank">James Rojas</a> as an urbanist with close ties to his home, from its community values, feel, art to neighborhood stories and legends. All materializing in his inimitable urban visioning. His brand of Latino Urbanism via his beloved East LA neighborhood are series of performances, installations, lectures, community based urban design workshops.developed work in unison for better urban life for people at its core. His ideas are assembled and launched as artful visuals, help people recognize Latino LA's own cultural wealth, influencing its current and future environments proposing&nbsp;&nbsp;something joyful and beneficial at the end.<br></p> <p>Listen to our interview with James Rojas, recorded in 2016:</p> <p><br></p>