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ThinkBamboo Podcast : Oscar Pont, French Architect & Carpenter in Brazil

French Architect Is Planting Bamboo in The Brazilian Jungle

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In this 5th ThinkBamboo Podcast, Oscar Pont, a French architect and carpenter living in Brazil, shares his journey of discovering bamboo as a sustainable material and his efforts to grow and experiment with bamboo on his land in Brazil. Pont explains that his architecture background was rooted in traditional European building materials such as concrete, steel, and stone. It wasn’t until he began traveling in Asia that he saw the potential of bamboo as a building material.