Hot Showers for the Homeless?
iterative research process, designing a proto-architectural molecularly in-spired micro-bamboo system, followed by some case-study examples of ac-tualized instantiations of the system at scale.
{FAVEL issues}
urban informality + urban development
Canaima School, an oasis in La Vega
I cannot believe I have never written here about Canaima School. Maybe it is because something so beautiful do not Continue reading
SOCIAL HOUSING/ MEXICO (article)
Caption image above: Unidad Independencia post-earthquake housing, Mexico; source: Architectural Review For this post, I wanted to share this article Continue reading
Favela re-nomadizada I
[1] La organización espacial del sur-continente (de México a Argentina), ha sido explicada desde una perspectiva occidental; así, la historia Continue reading
Slums: technologies of governance
Cities are understood to be bounded spaces of urban infrastructure inside a bordered national territory, however, in an ever-increasing integrated global Continue reading
The Shift and The Push – how will all be housed?
THE SHIFT Last spring The municipality of Malmö signed up to The Shift. The Shift was initiated by the UN Continue reading
(In)formality: Instant Cities & Planned Transformations
I first started writing about Instant Cities in 2013 as a way to describe how post-crisis displacement and refugee camps Continue reading
What is all wrong about “Slum tourism”
The “revolución bolivariana” has done little to improve the living conditions of slum dwellers. What they have done is destroy Continue reading
