The Informal Stance: Representations of Architectural Design and Informal Settlements - Couverture souple

Federighi, Valeria

 
9781940743394: The Informal Stance: Representations of Architectural Design and Informal Settlements
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1940743397 ISBN 13 : 9781940743394
Editeur : Oro Editions, 2018

Synopsis

  • The Informal Stance addresses the issue of informal settlements in relation to architecture, urban planning and design
  • Valeria Federighi is a member of the Scientific Committee for the Contemporary Urban Issues '14 Conference - Rethinking Informality, organised by Dakam and Istanbul University, November 2014
  • This is the publication of Valeria Federighi's doctoral dissertation
This book looks to the moment of encounter between architectural design and informal settlements as the most extreme demonstration of an increasingly evident disciplinary fascination for urban informality. It is an enduring fascination, arising from the need to test the boundaries of the discipline in the hope of finding it adaptable to change and willing to adapt. It is also a fascination that feeds off the gap that exists between the search for a renewed relevance of disciplinary tools - and the wider loss of faith in the project as a way to envision societal change. In fact, such fascination is played out within a seemingly structural contradiction: informal settlements originate as the effect of economic and political strategies that are deployed on a global scale; conversely, when dealing with informality, architecture searches for legitimisation at the very small scale of the tactical and ultralocal. A relationship of inverse proportion is in place, between the constrained scope of architectural design and the scale of the issues it sets out to address.

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À propos de l?auteur

Valeria Federighi is a practising architect and temporary research fellow at the Politecnico di Torino. She holds a PhD (2017) and MArch (2011) from the same school, and a Master of Science in Design Research (2012) from the University of Michigan.

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Éditeur
Oro Editions
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1940743397
ISBN 13 
9781940743394
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
260
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Personne responsable
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