'AUTHENTIC ARCHITECTURE'...OF THE EVERYDAY

http://www.journalofcommerce.com/article/id27545

'INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS'

Improving Informal Settlements: Ideas from Latin America: Prevailing strategies for addressing non-formal settlements have shifted away from large-scale slum clearance and relocation...approach favored today is on-site upgrading and improvement, with the goal of integrating low-income communities into their larger urban contexts.- Harvard Design Magazine


Resisting Representation: The Informal Geographies of Rio de Janiero: As geographers, architects, or planners, accepting our inability to articulate urban boundaries is infinitely useful for describing the contemporary city.- Harvard Design Magazine

writing

How he writes: On my laptop. I can’t do it any other way. I have to be able to type, pull up music and get references from the Internet. What made me brave about writing was the idea that with the computer I could cut and paste and think of writing as sculpture.