LES GRANDS ENSEMBLES, a social housing dystopia?

To start off the year, I want to share some surprising social housing sites on the suburbs on Paris. Built Continue reading →

Social housing + downtowns [Quito]

  While visiting Quito during Habitat III, I had the fortune to accompany some Chilean and Mexican architects to a Continue reading →

Revisiting Housing pilots [Haiti], part 2>> initial design + intent

Following the post written by Nathalie Jolivert reporting – two years after its construction-on the first housing pilot project in the first and Continue reading →

Revisiting Housing pilots [Haiti], 2 years later

Credits for photograph above: Claude André Nadon With a unique opportunity to hear an outsider’s perspective on the interventions and their impact 2 and Continue reading →

Urban Theory & Favelas [II]

[‘Guest Post’ por Diana Padilla] Sobre los ‘espaces autres’: En las ciudades del siglo XXI existen lugares que son ignorados Continue reading →

ECUADOR: [re]learning from reconstruction/ lecciones de reconstruction

Photograph above: Rebuilding in Port au Prince, source Claude Andre Nadon/UNOPS For this post I want to reference an article Continue reading →

Cartografía mental y nuevos sistemas de orientacion en la ciudad

Luego de considerarme adicta al uso del GPS para orientarme en la ciudad, sobre todo cuando el tiempo apremia. Quise hacer una Continue reading →

VILLAS + THE STORY OF THE CITY

An application of Jean Baudrillard’s simulacra for the analysis of the power dynamics between formal and informal GUEST POST by Continue reading →