Radical Cities: Across Latin America in Search of a New Architecture - Couverture rigide

McGuirk, Justin

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1781682801 ISBN 13 : 9781781682807

Editeur : Verso Books, 2014

Synopsis

What makes the city of the future? How do you heal a divided city? In Radical Cities, Justin McGuirk travels across Latin America in search of the activist architects, maverick politicians and alternative communities already answering these questions. From Brazil to Venezuela, and from Mexico to Argentina, McGuirk discovers the people and ideas shaping the way cities are evolving. Ever since the mid twentieth century, when the dream of modernist utopia went to Latin America to die, the continent has been a testing ground for exciting new conceptions of the city. An architect in Chile has designed a form of social housing where only half of the house is built, allowing the owners to adapt the rest; Medellín, formerly the world's murder capital, has been transformed with innovative public architecture; squatters in Caracas have taken over the forty-five-storey Torre David skyscraper; and Rio is on a mission to incorporate its favelas into the rest of the city. Here, in the most urbanised continent on the planet, extreme cities have bred extreme conditions, from vast housing estates to sprawling slums. But after decades of social and political failure, a new generation has revitalised architecture and urban design in order to address persistent poverty and inequality. Together, these activists, pragmatists and social idealists are performing bold experiments that the rest of the world may learn from.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Justin McGuirk is a writer and curator, and has worked as the Guardian's design columnist and the editor of Icon magazine. He is also the director of Strelka Press and the design consultant to 'Domus', and his writing has appeared in the 'Observer', the 'Times', 'Disegno', 'Art Review', 'Conde Nast Traveller', 'Form', the 'Architects Journal', 'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui'. In 2012 he was awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale of Architecture for an exhibition he curated with Urban Think Tank.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Verso Books
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1781682801
• ISBN 13: 9781781682807
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 304
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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