TY  - BOOK
AU  - Federighi, Valeria
AU  - Federighi, Valeria
TI  - The informal stance: representations of architectural design and informal settlements 
SN  - 9781940743394
AV  - NA2542.4 F43 2018
PY  - 2018///
CY  - [San Francisco Bay Area]
PB  - Applied Research and Design Publishing, an imprint of Oro Editions
KW  - Architectural design
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Squatter settlements
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Architecture
KW  - Human factors
N1  - Include Index
N2  - 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
ER  -