Lotus 143 (2010)

Considered only in negative and problematic terms – lacking architects, lacking planning, lacking rules, marginal and very poor – the favelas constitute, partly because of their immense size and variety, a type of settlement that needs to be seen as a new area of experience and learning for architecture.

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JR Art 

Vyjayanthi Rao
Slum As Theory

 

NAIROBI 

ETH Studio Basel
Nairobi Project, Nairobi, Kenya, 2007-09

Stefano Marras
Map Kibera Project, Kianda, Kibera, Nairobi, 2008

Matteo Perin
Building the In-Farmstructures, Kibera, Nairobi, 2010

 

SOUTH AFRICAN TOWNSHIPS

Noero Wolff Architects, Sonja Petrus Spamer Architects
Inkwenkwezi Secondary School, Du Noon, Cape Town, 2007

Noero Wolff Architects
Red Location Precinct Master Plan, Art Gallery, Library & Archive, New Brighton, Port Elizabeth, South Africa,1998-
Red Location Museum, New Brighton, Port Elizabeth, South Africa,1998-2009

Peter Rich Architects
Alexandra Heritage Centre, Alexandra, Johannesburg, 2007-10
Thulumtwana Children’s Facility, Johannesburg, Gauteng, 1999

 

CARACAS 

Urban-Think Tank
Metro Cable, Caracas, 2007-10

Alfredo Brillembourg & Hubert Klumpner | Urban-Think Tank
SLUM Lifting: Informal Toolbox for a New Architecture

Proyectos Arqui 5
U.D.U. 10.5 Los Cangilones La Vega, Barrio Unido – San Rafael – La Vega, Caracas, 2000-01, 2003-04

Luiz Paulo Conde, Sérgio Magalhães
Favela-Bairro: riscrivere la storia di Rio/Rewriting the History of Rio

Projeto Morrinho
Projeto Morrinho, Pereira da Silva Favela, Rio de Janeiro, 2007

Frédéric Druot
Etude de définition pour la transformation de la Favela, Rocinha Favela, Rio de Janeiro, 2010

Bauhaus Dessau Foundation
Célula Urbana, Jacarezinho Favela, Rio de Janeiro, 2000-04

Haas & Hahn/The Netherlands
Favela Painting, Praça Cantão, Communidade da Santa Marta, Rio De Janeiro, 2010

 

MUMBAI

The Royal University College of Fine Art
Dharavi: Documenting Informalities, Dharavi, Mumbai, 2008

Urban Nouveau with SPARC and Mahila Milan
Incremental Housing Strategy, Netaji Nagar, Yeramada, Pune, 2008-09

Sanjeev Shankar
Jugaad, New Delhi, December 2008

  

LIMA

Fernando García-Huidobro, Diego Torres Torriti, Nicolás Tugas
Time Builds!

 

Alejandro Aravena
Elemental Quinta Monroy, Iquique, Chile, 2003-04

Giancarlo Mazzanti
Social Kindergarten El Porvenir, Bosa, Bogotá, 2007-09
Biblioteca de España - Santo Domingo Savio, Medellín, Colombia, 2005

Carlos M. Teixeira e/and Louise Ganz
Amnésias Topográficas I-II, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 2001, 2004

CASE
Kao Seng Community Improvement Project, Songkhla, Thailand, 2003-04

Anna Dezeuze
Vivere di avversità: l‘arte della precarietà/
Thriving On Adversity: The Art of Precariousness