Resilience of a Slum: What, Why and How?

Image above: Picking up the pieces in Pedda Jalaripeta’s fishermen’s colony (India) after Cyclone Hudhud. Source: Al Jazeera   With this post, Continue reading →

Planning Failure, Ecological Failure

  The opening ceremony of the Rio Olympics are quickly approaching. The years since Rio was awarded the 2016 Summer 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 →

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 →

Architecture Inverse [intr0]

Lessons from homegrown neighbourhoods to sustainable architecture A project in parnertship : Crenau Laboratory, Capacites, New Black Digital Guest post 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 →

Christian Tragni Photojournalism by a Guy

I first talked with Christian Tragni after seeing his photos of young men in Rocinha, Rio de Janeiro with their Continue reading →

Working Favelas, Working People

Over the past few days my social media avenues have been bottlenecked with news and commentary on the protests in Brazil Continue reading →