Arlene Christy D. Lusterio

“ It's time for us to go to the people, rather than ask the people, especially the poor to come to us.”

DESCRIPTION OF WORK
Arlene Christy D. Lusterio is the founding member of TAO Pilipinas, an organization of women-led architects and planners that help reconstruct housing and urban infrastructures that disproportionately disadvantaged low income people in the Philippines. Arlene Christy D. Lusterio’s work focuses on providing accessible and affordable housing for poor people only, where women’s lives are further affected by violence, immobility, and labor exploitation.
BORN 
Contemporary
DESCENT 
Pilipina / Philippines  
DISCIPLINE Architect/ Environmental Planner