Torre David is an incomplete skyscraper in the center of the Venezuelan capital Caracas that has been occupied and reconstructed by local residents. Work on the building, named after the financial investor David Brillembourg, who died in 1993, was suspended during the Venezuelan financial crisis of 1994. After the office tower - the third highest in Venezuela - had stood empty for many years, it was taken over by the local population in 2008. The occupants made the building their own with improvisation and skill - it is a "vertical favela," now containing not just housing but also other everyday facilities such as an improvised doctor's office, shops, and more. Photographer Iwan Baan has documented Torre David and its occupants, creating a portrait that captures the contradictions of the place while at the same time revealing urban structures that have emerged dynamically and without planning.
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ALFREDO BRILLEMBOURG was born in New York in 1961. In 1993 he founded Urban-Think Tank in Caracas, Venezuela. Since May 2010, Brillembourg holds a chair in architecture and urban design at the Swiss Institute of Technology, Zurich. HUBERT KLUMPNER was born in Salzburg in 1965. In 1998 he joined Alfredo Brillembourg as director of Urban-Think Tank in Caracas. Since 2010, Klumpner holds a chair in architecture and urban design at the Swiss Institute of Technology, Zurich.
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Paperback. Etat : New. Torre David is an incomplete skyscraper in the center of the Venezuelan capital Caracas that has been occupied and reconstructed by local residents. Work on the building, named after the financial investor David Brillembourg, who died in 1993, was suspended during the Venezuelan financial crisis of 1994. After the office tower - the third highest in Venezuela - had stood empty for many years, it was taken over by the local population in 2008. The occupants made the building their own with improvisation and skill - it is a "vertical favela," now containing not just housing but also other everyday facilities such as an improvised doctor's office, shops, and more. Photographer Iwan Baan has documented Torre David and its occupants, creating a portrait that captures the contradictions of the place while at the same time revealing urban structures that have emerged dynamically and without planning. N° de réf. du vendeur LU-9783037782989
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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. Torre David, a 45-story skyscraper in Caracas, has remained uncompleted since the Venezuelan economy collapsed in 1994. Today, it is the improvised home to more than 750 families living in an extra-legal and tenuous squat, that some have called a vertical slum. Urban-Think Tank, the authors of TORRE DAVID: INFORMAL VERTICAL COMMUNITIES, spent a year studying the physical and social organization of this ruin-become home. Richly illustrated with photographs by Iwan Baan, the book documents the residents' occupation of the tower and how, in the absence of formal infrastructure, they organize themselves to provide for daily needs, with a hair salon, a gym, grocery shops, and more. The authors of this thought-provoking work investigate informal vertical communities and the architecture that supports them and issue a call for action: to see in informal settlements a potential for innovation and experimentation, with the goal of putting design in service to a more equitable and sustainable future. 406 illustrations Torre David ist ein nicht fertiggestellter Wolkenkratzer im Zentrum der venezolanischenHauptstadt Caracas, der von der Bevölkerung besetzt und umgenutzt wurde.Der Bau des Gebäudes, dessen Rufname auf den 1993 verstorbenen FinanzinvestorDavid Brillembourg zurückgeht, wurde im Zuge der lateinamerikanischen Finanzkrise1994 unterbrochen. Nachdem der Büroturm - der dritthöchste Venezuelas - vieleJahre lang ungenutzt leer stand, wurde er 2008 von der lokalen Bevölkerung in Besitzgenommen. Mit Improvisation und Geschick haben die Bewohner sich das Gebäudeangeeignet - es ist eine vertikale Favela, in der sich mittlerweile nicht nur Wohnräume,sondern auch andere Einrichtungen des Alltags befinden wie improvisierteArztpraxen, Geschäfte und anderes. Der Fotograf Iwan Baan hat den Torre Davidund seine Bewohner dokumentiert. Entstanden ist ein Porträt, das die Widersprüchlichkeitendes Ortes festhält und zugleich dynamisch und ungeplant entstandenestädtische Strukturen sichtbar macht. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9783037782989
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