02253nam a22003137a 4500 274736 274736 pucpr 20191120172418.0 181029b2018 abe|| |||| 001 0 eng d 9781940743394 pucpr eng pucpr pucpr rda CARIBET NA2542.4 F43 2018 721 295860 Federighi, Valeria Valeria Federighi The informal stance : representations of architectural design and informal settlements / Valeria Federighi txt First edition [San Francisco Bay Area] Applied Research and Design Publishing, an imprint of Oro Editions 2018 Pages: 255 illustrations; Maps; plans 24 cm. book rdacontent text txt rdamedia unmediated n rdacarrier volume nc 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 at the global scale; conversely, when dealing with informality, architecture searches for legitimization at the very small scale of the tactical and ultra-local. 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 Include Index. 54078 Architectural design. Social aspects 173549 Squatter settlements Philosophy 54081 Architecture Human factors 295860 Federighi, Valeria Valeria Federighi lcc 6 NA2542.4 General F43 2018 0 0 lcc 0 0 4 4 33 2018-06-27 Amazon 29.26 0 General NA2542.4 F43 2018 91000000059568 2018-10-29 00:00:00 1 39.26 2018-06-27 6