Leicester School of Architecture
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DIALOGOS DEL SUR, ENTRE LA ARQUITECTURA Y EL ARTE: REFLEXIONES DE LA HISTORIA DE UNA AMISTAD EN LA TRAYECTORIA DE JORGE OTEIZA Y JAVIER SAENZ DE OIZA
(Article)This article reflects on the work of the Spanish architect Javier Sainz de Oiza and his relationship with Basque sculptor Jorge Oteiza and covers their work and their relationships with South America -
Bosworth Battlefield Digital Landscape Project – An Interactive Wide Area Digital Model and Digital Heritage Framework
(Working Paper)This report is an outcome of The Bosworth Battlefield Landscape Project, a one year project funded by Arts Council England’s Museum Resilience Fund and administered by the National Coordinating Centre for Public Engagement ... -
The Costs of Estate Regeneration: A Report by Architects for Social Housing
(Technical Report)One of the biggest problems faced by residents informed that their estate is being considered for ‘regeneration’ is the disinformation they are given by the local authority or housing association implementing the process. ... -
Participación en la construcción popular del hábitat. Una revisión del Plan Piloto para Villa 7 en Buenos Aires
(Article)This article takes a case study located in Buenos Aires, the Plan Piloto para la Relocalización de Villa 7, 1971-1975 (Pilot Plan for the Relocation of Shantytown #7) as the main focus for revisiting the concepts of ... -
Grassroots Agency: Participation and Conflict in Buenos Aires Shantytowns seen through the Pilot Plan for Villa 7 (1971–1975)
(Article)In 1971, after more than a decade of national and municipal policies aimed at the top-down removal of shantytowns, the Buenos Aires City Council approved the Plan Piloto para la Relocalización de Villa 7 (Pilot Plan for ... -
Negociaciones, permanencia y construcción cotidiana en villas (Villas La Lonja, Cildáñez y Castañares, Buenos Aires, 1958-1967)
(Article)This article offers a study of three Buenos Aires shantytowns – La Lonja, Villa Cildáñez and Villa Castañares – in historical perspective in order to analyze processes of spatial transformation in urban informal spaces ... -
Lo político en lo urbano. Pobreza urbana en el pasado reciente. Villa Jardín, 1958-1967
(Article)The present article takes a case study – Villa Jardín, Buenos Aires, 1958-1967 – as a starting point to analyze different ways of political practice urban space, especially in contexts of urban poverty. The article focuses ... -
Cómo nombrar a la informalidad urbana: Una revisión de las definiciones en uso, sus implicaciones analíticas y su alcance
(Article)Villas, asentamientos, barriadas, slums, shantytowns: What are the definitions we have chosen to talk about the informal city, and what sense do we assign when using them? A challenge regarding the terms used refers to ... -
El Parque Almirante Brown y el Team 10 como proceso de apropiación creativa (Buenos Aires, 1961-1976)
(Article)Este artículo ofrece elementos para una revisión crítica de la arquitectura y el planeamiento modernos de mediados de siglo XX en la ciudad de Buenos Aires en relación con el debate internacional de la época a través del ... -
Design Exchanges in Mid-Twentieth Century Buenos Aires: The Programme Parque Almirante Brown and its Process of Creative Appropriation
(Article)This article offers a critical analysis of planning and housing design in mid-twentieth century Buenos Aires, Argentina, within the wider global context of modern design and architecture. In particular, the article focuses ... -
Utopian Visions for Buenos Aires Shantytowns: Collective Imaginaries of Housing Rights, Upgrading and Eviction (1956-2013)
(Article)This article explores three utopian visions which have shaped past and present experiences within Buenos Aires shantytowns: those of upgraded shantytowns, of universal housing, and of a city where shantytowns have been ... -
Creative Spaces: Urban Culture and Marginality in Latin America
(Book)This book is an interdisciplinary exploration of the different ways in which marginal urban spaces have become privileged locations for creativity in Latin America. This is to say that the essays within the collection ... -
The Spatiality of Desire in Martin Oesterheld’s La multitud and Luis Ortega’s Dromómanos
(Book chapter)Drawing on the traditions of cinéma vérité and direct cinema, Martín Oesterheld’s La multitud (2014) is an observational documentary that depicts the various urban typologies of the south of Buenos Aires. The film deploys ... -
Conflicting conceptions of domestic space: Shanty towns and state housing in contemporary Argentine cinema
(Article)This article analyses the ways in which two contemporary Argentine films, Villa (Ezio Massa, 2013) and Diagnóstico esperanza (César González, 2013), portray domestic space. It argues that, in different ways, they both ... -
What is Community-led Housing? Proposal for a Co-operative Housing Development
(Article)What is ‘community-led housing’? The phrase is used these days with increasing frequency, but what does it mean? How can it embrace the resource and advice hub set up by the London Mayor to build more affordable housing, ... -
Learning from built vernacular heritage
(Conference)In the last three decades, scholars and professional architects have developed a keen interest in the architectural style, commonly known as vernacular. The reason for this attention is twofold: on the one hand, this style ... -
Perceptual visualities in media space
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Constructing a Machinic Visuality
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Dismantling the Face
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