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 →

Sambinha Architecture, Technological Entrapment, and the Pioneering Spirit

How informal urbanism affects the way we think about formal urbanism is one of the crucial questions we ask here Continue reading →

Urban Theory & Favelas [I]

  [1] The idea of rethinking a “new” urban theory from Latin American squatter settlements began during the development of Continue reading →

The ‘faveliza-tion’ question

[1] If the favelas are considered the nodes between megacities and secondary cities, Could they be the key pieces to Continue reading →

Sambinha Architecture and the Latent World

They say that architecture brings out attributes of the world that may have gone unexpressed or unnoticed in its absence. Sometimes Continue reading →

On planning, violations and the limits of informality; an interview with Jayaraj Sundaresan

After twenty years working in Indian cities as an architect-planner-researcher, Jayaraj Sundaresan challenged existing urban theory to explain planning violations Continue reading →

El metabolismo migratorio de las ciudades

El metabolismo de los Inmigrantes es una oportunidad de desarrollo

Thinking about Favelas II:

[1] Most of the schools of architecture in Latin America have been considered theory as history, although, from this perspective, Continue reading →