The title: Indigenous Technology in Mato Grosso: Dwellings introduces a subject which is
indispensable for any type of Architectural teaching in Brazil. Paulo Mendes da Rocha (Architect and Urbanist), in the presentation of this second edition.
 
[This] book opens us up through all its originality and dignity, but also through all its socio-economic and technological constraint and specificity in relation to Brazilian Indigenous Architecture in terms of each of the ethnicities studied. Indeed, it is precisely this process that brings them out of the dusty limbo of historical references and prejudices, inviting them to enter the universe of local cultures and the dominant civilizations of the globalized and living world of the current age.
Carlos Zibel Costa, Architect (FAU-USP)
 
In his doctoral thesis [...] the author adopted an ethnographic position in the surveying of indigenous house design, seeking sources in bibliographical records and in the extensive field studies (...)