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Informalising Architecture: The Challenge of Informal Settlements
Transgression is often driven by the power to exercise choice and consciously cross the line. As Kim Dovey, Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of Melbourne, explains, informal settlements, which have grown up globally out of immediate need for shelter and community, and are legally precarious, transgress established codes of ‘land tenure, urban planning, design and construction’. Their condition requires transgression, even if they are subversion through necessity rather than by design. So what is architecture's future role in informal settlements? And what can be learnt from this more ad hoc and incremental model of urban design?
Informalising Architecture: The Challenge of Informal Settlements
Transgression is often driven by the power to exercise choice and consciously cross the line. As Kim Dovey, Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of Melbourne, explains, informal settlements, which have grown up globally out of immediate need for shelter and community, and are legally precarious, transgress established codes of ‘land tenure, urban planning, design and construction’. Their condition requires transgression, even if they are subversion through necessity rather than by design. So what is architecture's future role in informal settlements? And what can be learnt from this more ad hoc and incremental model of urban design?
Informalising Architecture: The Challenge of Informal Settlements
Dovey, Kim (author)
Architectural Design ; 83 ; 82-89
2013-11-01
8 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
Rocinha in Rio , Gondolayu project in Yogyakarta, Indonesia , Haas&Hahn , Justin McGuirk , Kibera in Nairobi , Golden Lion award , Torre David/Gran Horizonte installation/café , ‘squatter’ , Mike Davis , US Institute for Urban Design , Santa Marta favela, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil , John Habraken , Urban‐Think Tank , community‐based mapping , Khlong Saen Saeb, Bangkok, Thailand , John Turner , Replacement Housing, Dharavi, Mumbai, India , Centro Financiero Confinanzas office tower , Félix Guattari , Prasanna Desai Architects with Mahila Milan, the National Slum Dwellers Federation (NSDF) and the Society for the Promotion of Area Resource Centres (SPARC), Yerawada, Pune, India , ‘architecture without architects’ , Walter Benjamin , Spontaneous Interventions: Design Actions for the Common Good , ‘site + services’ schemes , Romo Mangun , Le Corbusier , Iwan Baan , ‘slum’ , Naples , ‘supports’ system , ‘planet of slums’ , Tondo, Manila, Philippines , Caracas , Gilles Deleuze
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