representations of architectural design and informal settlements Federighi, Valeria Valeria Federighi creator Federighi, Valeria Valeria Federighi text First edition monographic eng

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Pages: 255 illustrations; Maps; plans 24 cm. 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 Valeria Federighi Include Index. Architectural design Social aspects Squatter settlements Philosophy Architecture Human factors NA2542.4 F43 2018 9781940743394 pucpr 181029 20191120172418.0 eng