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Against urbanism
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After demolishing the myth of the rock star architect with his book "Against architecture," Franco La Cecla now explores the decisive challenges that cities are going to have to confront in the near future. Urban planning and development has become increasingly inadequate in response to the daily realities of life in our cities. Human, economic, ethnic, and environmental(...)
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After demolishing the myth of the rock star architect with his book "Against architecture," Franco La Cecla now explores the decisive challenges that cities are going to have to confront in the near future. Urban planning and development has become increasingly inadequate in response to the daily realities of life in our cities. Human, economic, ethnic, and environmental(...)
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Against urbanism
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After demolishing the myth of the rock star architect with his book "Against architecture," Franco La Cecla now explores the decisive challenges that cities are going to have to confront in the near future. Urban planning and development has become increasingly inadequate in response to the daily realities of life in our cities. Human, economic, ethnic, and environmental factors are systematically overlooked in city planning and housing development, and anachronistic, sterile, and formalistic architecture almost invariably prevails. Never more than today has democracy played itself out in public spaces, sidewalks, and streets. Urban planners and developers, however, are still prisoners of an obsolete vision of passivity which betrays actual city needs and demands. A new urban science is required which can, first of all, guarantee a civil, dignified life for all—urban development which ensures the right to a humane mode of daily living, which has been and still is completely ignored.
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After demolishing the myth of the rock star architect with his book "Against architecture," Franco La Cecla now explores the decisive challenges that cities are going to have to confront in the near future. Urban planning and development has become increasingly inadequate in response to the daily realities of life in our cities. Human, economic, ethnic, and environmental factors are systematically overlooked in city planning and housing development, and anachronistic, sterile, and formalistic architecture almost invariably prevails. Never more than today has democracy played itself out in public spaces, sidewalks, and streets. Urban planners and developers, however, are still prisoners of an obsolete vision of passivity which betrays actual city needs and demands. A new urban science is required which can, first of all, guarantee a civil, dignified life for all—urban development which ensures the right to a humane mode of daily living, which has been and still is completely ignored.
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March 2020
March 2020
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Urban Theory
Urban Theory
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EUROPAN, founded in 1989, and supported by thirteen countries in the European Union, runs a competition every two years and invites young architects to submit innovative and experimental models in urban development. The 2019 EUROPAN competition focused on the topic productive cities and involved more than nine hundred planning teams from all over Europe, who prepared(...)
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EUROPAN, founded in 1989, and supported by thirteen countries in the European Union, runs a competition every two years and invites young architects to submit innovative and experimental models in urban development. The 2019 EUROPAN competition focused on the topic productive cities and involved more than nine hundred planning teams from all over Europe, who prepared(...)
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Europan 15: Austria, productive cities 2. Resources, mobility, equity
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EUROPAN, founded in 1989, and supported by thirteen countries in the European Union, runs a competition every two years and invites young architects to submit innovative and experimental models in urban development. The 2019 EUROPAN competition focused on the topic productive cities and involved more than nine hundred planning teams from all over Europe, who prepared proposals for forty-seven towns. This book features the twelve winning submissions to the 2019 edition for the Austrian cities Graz, Innsbruck, Villach, Weiz, and Vienna. They are presented in impeccable detail through photos, drawings, and visualizations, along textual commentary. The projects focus on architectural and urban planning interventions and processes. They offer innovative concepts for the use of public space, models for cross-functional use of space, and holistic solutions for sustainable construction. Taken as a whole, the book is a rich source of trendsetting ideas about our future cities and the development of a new urban lifestyle.
Europan 15: Austria, productive cities 2. Resources, mobility, equity
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EUROPAN, founded in 1989, and supported by thirteen countries in the European Union, runs a competition every two years and invites young architects to submit innovative and experimental models in urban development. The 2019 EUROPAN competition focused on the topic productive cities and involved more than nine hundred planning teams from all over Europe, who prepared proposals for forty-seven towns. This book features the twelve winning submissions to the 2019 edition for the Austrian cities Graz, Innsbruck, Villach, Weiz, and Vienna. They are presented in impeccable detail through photos, drawings, and visualizations, along textual commentary. The projects focus on architectural and urban planning interventions and processes. They offer innovative concepts for the use of public space, models for cross-functional use of space, and holistic solutions for sustainable construction. Taken as a whole, the book is a rich source of trendsetting ideas about our future cities and the development of a new urban lifestyle.
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February 2021
February 2021
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Urban Theory
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L’enquête-choc qui a révélé la dévitalisation des villes françaises et suscité un débat national.La crise urbaine ronge les préfectures et sous-préfectures, les détruit de l’intérieur : les vitrines des commerces se vident, la population stagne, les logements sont vacants, le niveau de vie baisse. Alors que se passe-t-il? Dans cet ouvrage, analyse l’offensive délibérée de(...)
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L’enquête-choc qui a révélé la dévitalisation des villes françaises et suscité un débat national.La crise urbaine ronge les préfectures et sous-préfectures, les détruit de l’intérieur : les vitrines des commerces se vident, la population stagne, les logements sont vacants, le niveau de vie baisse. Alors que se passe-t-il? Dans cet ouvrage, analyse l’offensive délibérée de(...)
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Comment la France a tué ses villes
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L’enquête-choc qui a révélé la dévitalisation des villes françaises et suscité un débat national.La crise urbaine ronge les préfectures et sous-préfectures, les détruit de l’intérieur : les vitrines des commerces se vident, la population stagne, les logements sont vacants, le niveau de vie baisse. Alors que se passe-t-il? Dans cet ouvrage, analyse l’offensive délibérée de la grande distribution, en périphérie, qui tue les commerces du centre-ville et des quartiers anciens, et sacrifie les emplois de proximité. Il observe également comment la motorisation – incarnée par la voiture individuelle – contribue largement à l’asphyxie des villes. « Comment la France peut-elle sauver ses villes? » Il n’existe nulle solution miraculeuse, mais une série de petits pas, de décisions empreintes de sobriété.
Comment la France a tué ses villes
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L’enquête-choc qui a révélé la dévitalisation des villes françaises et suscité un débat national.La crise urbaine ronge les préfectures et sous-préfectures, les détruit de l’intérieur : les vitrines des commerces se vident, la population stagne, les logements sont vacants, le niveau de vie baisse. Alors que se passe-t-il? Dans cet ouvrage, analyse l’offensive délibérée de la grande distribution, en périphérie, qui tue les commerces du centre-ville et des quartiers anciens, et sacrifie les emplois de proximité. Il observe également comment la motorisation – incarnée par la voiture individuelle – contribue largement à l’asphyxie des villes. « Comment la France peut-elle sauver ses villes? » Il n’existe nulle solution miraculeuse, mais une série de petits pas, de décisions empreintes de sobriété.
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January 2021
January 2021
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What might our cities look like in ten, twenty or fifty years? How may future cities face global challenges? Imagining the city of the future has long been an inspiration for many architects, artists and designers. This book examines how cities of the future have been visualised, what these projects sought to communicate and what the implications may be for us now. It(...)
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What might our cities look like in ten, twenty or fifty years? How may future cities face global challenges? Imagining the city of the future has long been an inspiration for many architects, artists and designers. This book examines how cities of the future have been visualised, what these projects sought to communicate and what the implications may be for us now. It(...)
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Future cities: a visual guide
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What might our cities look like in ten, twenty or fifty years? How may future cities face global challenges? Imagining the city of the future has long been an inspiration for many architects, artists and designers. This book examines how cities of the future have been visualised, what these projects sought to communicate and what the implications may be for us now. It provides a visual history of the future and explores the relationships between different visualisation techniques and ideologies for cities. Thinking about what futures are, who they are for, why they are desirable, and how and when they are to be brought into being is central to this book. Through visualisation we are able to experiment in ways that would be impractical and potentially hazardous in the real world, and this book, therefore, aims to contribute toward a better understanding of the power and agency of visualisations for future cities.
Future cities: a visual guide
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What might our cities look like in ten, twenty or fifty years? How may future cities face global challenges? Imagining the city of the future has long been an inspiration for many architects, artists and designers. This book examines how cities of the future have been visualised, what these projects sought to communicate and what the implications may be for us now. It provides a visual history of the future and explores the relationships between different visualisation techniques and ideologies for cities. Thinking about what futures are, who they are for, why they are desirable, and how and when they are to be brought into being is central to this book. Through visualisation we are able to experiment in ways that would be impractical and potentially hazardous in the real world, and this book, therefore, aims to contribute toward a better understanding of the power and agency of visualisations for future cities.
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February 2021
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L’hyperville n’est pas la très grande ville, la cité tentaculaire noire et repoussante des XIXe et XXe?siècles. L’hyperville est plutôt un territoire encastré dans une échelle territoriale multiscalaire qui, du local au global, possède des variations rendues possibles par les réseaux, où le digital joue un rôle important de coalescence des initiatives. L’hyperville va(...)
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L’hyperville n’est pas la très grande ville, la cité tentaculaire noire et repoussante des XIXe et XXe?siècles. L’hyperville est plutôt un territoire encastré dans une échelle territoriale multiscalaire qui, du local au global, possède des variations rendues possibles par les réseaux, où le digital joue un rôle important de coalescence des initiatives. L’hyperville va(...)
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Hyperville(s) : Construire des territoitres solidaires
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L’hyperville n’est pas la très grande ville, la cité tentaculaire noire et repoussante des XIXe et XXe?siècles. L’hyperville est plutôt un territoire encastré dans une échelle territoriale multiscalaire qui, du local au global, possède des variations rendues possibles par les réseaux, où le digital joue un rôle important de coalescence des initiatives. L’hyperville va donc du village à la métropole, formant ainsi autant de configurations différentes. Entendue également comme un régime d’engagement urbain, l’hyperville sera, dans cet ouvrage, approchée par la mise en œuvre concrète d’une contribution de tous ses acteurs. L’hyperville présuppose un sens renouvelé de la coopération et de l’association humaine en lien avec une dynamique de l’innovation sur des territoires qui apparaissent dans les sphères du travail, du loisir, de l’habitat, des transports, de la connaissance.
Hyperville(s) : Construire des territoitres solidaires
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L’hyperville n’est pas la très grande ville, la cité tentaculaire noire et repoussante des XIXe et XXe?siècles. L’hyperville est plutôt un territoire encastré dans une échelle territoriale multiscalaire qui, du local au global, possède des variations rendues possibles par les réseaux, où le digital joue un rôle important de coalescence des initiatives. L’hyperville va donc du village à la métropole, formant ainsi autant de configurations différentes. Entendue également comme un régime d’engagement urbain, l’hyperville sera, dans cet ouvrage, approchée par la mise en œuvre concrète d’une contribution de tous ses acteurs. L’hyperville présuppose un sens renouvelé de la coopération et de l’association humaine en lien avec une dynamique de l’innovation sur des territoires qui apparaissent dans les sphères du travail, du loisir, de l’habitat, des transports, de la connaissance.
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Une étude consacrée au développement des villes intermédiaires dans les pays du Sud, c'est-à-dire les villes moyennes dont les ressources inférieures à celles des grandes villes, accentuent la paupérisation des couches modestes de la population. L'auteur s'appuie sur quatre études de cas : Koudougou au Burkina Faso, Montes Claros au Brésil, Nueve de Julio en Argentine et(...)
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Une étude consacrée au développement des villes intermédiaires dans les pays du Sud, c'est-à-dire les villes moyennes dont les ressources inférieures à celles des grandes villes, accentuent la paupérisation des couches modestes de la population. L'auteur s'appuie sur quatre études de cas : Koudougou au Burkina Faso, Montes Claros au Brésil, Nueve de Julio en Argentine et(...)
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Villes intermédiaires au Sud du monde
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Une étude consacrée au développement des villes intermédiaires dans les pays du Sud, c'est-à-dire les villes moyennes dont les ressources inférieures à celles des grandes villes, accentuent la paupérisation des couches modestes de la population. L'auteur s'appuie sur quatre études de cas : Koudougou au Burkina Faso, Montes Claros au Brésil, Nueve de Julio en Argentine et Chau Doc au Vietnam.
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Une étude consacrée au développement des villes intermédiaires dans les pays du Sud, c'est-à-dire les villes moyennes dont les ressources inférieures à celles des grandes villes, accentuent la paupérisation des couches modestes de la population. L'auteur s'appuie sur quatre études de cas : Koudougou au Burkina Faso, Montes Claros au Brésil, Nueve de Julio en Argentine et Chau Doc au Vietnam.
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Planet city
Planet city
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Based in Los Angeles, film director and architect Liam Young’s work is situated within the fields of design fiction and critical design. ‘Planet City’ is an urgent examination of the productive potential of extreme densification in an imagined future where ten billion people surrender the rest of the planet to a global wilderness. In a vision that runs counter to our(...)
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Based in Los Angeles, film director and architect Liam Young’s work is situated within the fields of design fiction and critical design. ‘Planet City’ is an urgent examination of the productive potential of extreme densification in an imagined future where ten billion people surrender the rest of the planet to a global wilderness. In a vision that runs counter to our(...)
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Planet city
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Based in Los Angeles, film director and architect Liam Young’s work is situated within the fields of design fiction and critical design. ‘Planet City’ is an urgent examination of the productive potential of extreme densification in an imagined future where ten billion people surrender the rest of the planet to a global wilderness. In a vision that runs counter to our current world, the book describes a radical reversal of planetary sprawl, where humans retreat from our vast network of cities and supply chains into one hyper-dense metropolis. Not a techno-utopian fantasy, this work of critical architecture and speculative fiction is grounded in statistical analysis, research, and traditional knowledge.
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Based in Los Angeles, film director and architect Liam Young’s work is situated within the fields of design fiction and critical design. ‘Planet City’ is an urgent examination of the productive potential of extreme densification in an imagined future where ten billion people surrender the rest of the planet to a global wilderness. In a vision that runs counter to our current world, the book describes a radical reversal of planetary sprawl, where humans retreat from our vast network of cities and supply chains into one hyper-dense metropolis. Not a techno-utopian fantasy, this work of critical architecture and speculative fiction is grounded in statistical analysis, research, and traditional knowledge.
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March 2021
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Urban planning is not just about applying a suite of systematic principles or plotting out pragmatic designs to satisfy the briefs of private developers or public bodies. Planning is also an activity of imagination, with a stock of wisdom and an array of useful methods for making decisions and getting things done.This publication uncovers and celebrates this imagination(...)
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Urban planning is not just about applying a suite of systematic principles or plotting out pragmatic designs to satisfy the briefs of private developers or public bodies. Planning is also an activity of imagination, with a stock of wisdom and an array of useful methods for making decisions and getting things done.This publication uncovers and celebrates this imagination(...)
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The urban planning imagination
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Urban planning is not just about applying a suite of systematic principles or plotting out pragmatic designs to satisfy the briefs of private developers or public bodies. Planning is also an activity of imagination, with a stock of wisdom and an array of useful methods for making decisions and getting things done.This publication uncovers and celebrates this imagination and its creative potential. Nicholas A. Phelps explores the key themes and driving questions in the circulation of planning ideas and methods over time and across spaces, identifying the contrasts and commonalities between urban planning systems and cultures. He argues that the tools for inclusive urban planning are today, more than ever, not solely restricted to the hands of planning bodies, but are distributed across citizens, a variety of organizations (what Phelps calls ‘clubs’) and states. As a result, the book sets the ground for the new arrangements between these groups and actors which will be central to the future of urban planning.By unsettling standard accounts, this book compels us towards more critical and creative thinking to ensure that the imagination, wisdom and methods of urban planning are mobilized towards achieving the aspiration of shaping better places.
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Urban planning is not just about applying a suite of systematic principles or plotting out pragmatic designs to satisfy the briefs of private developers or public bodies. Planning is also an activity of imagination, with a stock of wisdom and an array of useful methods for making decisions and getting things done.This publication uncovers and celebrates this imagination and its creative potential. Nicholas A. Phelps explores the key themes and driving questions in the circulation of planning ideas and methods over time and across spaces, identifying the contrasts and commonalities between urban planning systems and cultures. He argues that the tools for inclusive urban planning are today, more than ever, not solely restricted to the hands of planning bodies, but are distributed across citizens, a variety of organizations (what Phelps calls ‘clubs’) and states. As a result, the book sets the ground for the new arrangements between these groups and actors which will be central to the future of urban planning.By unsettling standard accounts, this book compels us towards more critical and creative thinking to ensure that the imagination, wisdom and methods of urban planning are mobilized towards achieving the aspiration of shaping better places.
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June 2021
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In 'The Topography of Wellness', Sara Jensen Carr offers a chronological narrative of how six epidemics transformed the American urban landscape, reflecting changing views of the power of design, pathology of disease, and the epidemiology of the environment. From the infectious diseases of cholera and tuberculosis, to so-called social diseases of idleness and crime, to(...)
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In 'The Topography of Wellness', Sara Jensen Carr offers a chronological narrative of how six epidemics transformed the American urban landscape, reflecting changing views of the power of design, pathology of disease, and the epidemiology of the environment. From the infectious diseases of cholera and tuberculosis, to so-called social diseases of idleness and crime, to(...)
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The topography of wellness: how health and disease shaped the American landscape
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In 'The Topography of Wellness', Sara Jensen Carr offers a chronological narrative of how six epidemics transformed the American urban landscape, reflecting changing views of the power of design, pathology of disease, and the epidemiology of the environment. From the infectious diseases of cholera and tuberculosis, to so-called social diseases of idleness and crime, to the more complicated origins of today’s chronic diseases, each illness and its associated combat strategies has left its mark on our surroundings. While each solution succeeded in eliminating the disease on some level, sweeping environmental changes often came with significant social and physical consequences. Even more unexpectedly, some adaptations inadvertently incubated future epidemics. From the Industrial Revolution to present day, this book illuminates the constant evolution of our relationship to wellness and the environment by documenting the shifting grounds of illness and the urban landscape.
The topography of wellness: how health and disease shaped the American landscape
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In 'The Topography of Wellness', Sara Jensen Carr offers a chronological narrative of how six epidemics transformed the American urban landscape, reflecting changing views of the power of design, pathology of disease, and the epidemiology of the environment. From the infectious diseases of cholera and tuberculosis, to so-called social diseases of idleness and crime, to the more complicated origins of today’s chronic diseases, each illness and its associated combat strategies has left its mark on our surroundings. While each solution succeeded in eliminating the disease on some level, sweeping environmental changes often came with significant social and physical consequences. Even more unexpectedly, some adaptations inadvertently incubated future epidemics. From the Industrial Revolution to present day, this book illuminates the constant evolution of our relationship to wellness and the environment by documenting the shifting grounds of illness and the urban landscape.
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October 2021
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Throughout the early twentieth century, waves of migration brought working-class people to the outskirts of Buenos Aires. This prompted a dilemma: Where should these restive populations be situated relative to the city’s spatial politics? Enter Antonio Bonet, a Catalan architect inspired by the transatlantic modernist and surrealist movements. Ana María León follows(...)
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Throughout the early twentieth century, waves of migration brought working-class people to the outskirts of Buenos Aires. This prompted a dilemma: Where should these restive populations be situated relative to the city’s spatial politics? Enter Antonio Bonet, a Catalan architect inspired by the transatlantic modernist and surrealist movements. Ana María León follows(...)
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Modernity for the masses: Antonio Bonet's Dreams for Buenos Aires
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Throughout the early twentieth century, waves of migration brought working-class people to the outskirts of Buenos Aires. This prompted a dilemma: Where should these restive populations be situated relative to the city’s spatial politics? Enter Antonio Bonet, a Catalan architect inspired by the transatlantic modernist and surrealist movements. Ana María León follows Bonet's decades-long, state-backed quest to house Buenos Aires's diverse and fractious population. Working with totalitarian and populist regimes, Bonet developed three large-scale housing plans, each scuttled as a new government took over. Yet these incomplete plans—Bonet's dreams—teach us much about the relationship between modernism and state power. This volume finds in Bonet's projects the disconnect between modern architecture’s discourse of emancipation and the reality of its rationalizing control. Although he and his patrons constantly glorified the people and depicted them in housing plans, Bonet never consulted them. Instead he succumbed to official and elite fears of the people's latent political power. In careful readings of Bonet's work, León discovers the progressive erasure of surrealism's psychological sensitivity, replaced with an impulse, realized in modernist design, to contain the increasingly empowered population.
Modernity for the masses: Antonio Bonet's Dreams for Buenos Aires
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Throughout the early twentieth century, waves of migration brought working-class people to the outskirts of Buenos Aires. This prompted a dilemma: Where should these restive populations be situated relative to the city’s spatial politics? Enter Antonio Bonet, a Catalan architect inspired by the transatlantic modernist and surrealist movements. Ana María León follows Bonet's decades-long, state-backed quest to house Buenos Aires's diverse and fractious population. Working with totalitarian and populist regimes, Bonet developed three large-scale housing plans, each scuttled as a new government took over. Yet these incomplete plans—Bonet's dreams—teach us much about the relationship between modernism and state power. This volume finds in Bonet's projects the disconnect between modern architecture’s discourse of emancipation and the reality of its rationalizing control. Although he and his patrons constantly glorified the people and depicted them in housing plans, Bonet never consulted them. Instead he succumbed to official and elite fears of the people's latent political power. In careful readings of Bonet's work, León discovers the progressive erasure of surrealism's psychological sensitivity, replaced with an impulse, realized in modernist design, to contain the increasingly empowered population.
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April 2021
April 2021
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Urban Theory
Urban Theory
