Formalizing the Informal: New Urban Design Tactics in Latin America

This study identifies and analyzes howseveral contemporary Latin American architects have been developing urban interventions that radically depart from the conventions of modern architecture and planning. To this end, we have concentrated on tactical initiatives developed by Teddy Cruz on the San Diego-Tijuana border; Flavio Janches within the informal settlements located on the urban periphery of Buenos Aires; and Jorge Jáuregui in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro. Although the initiatives of thesearchitects are mobilized in notably different national, cultural, socio-economic, and urban contexts within the United States, Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil, their projects collectively search for new approaches that respond to variant provocations— borderlands, liminalities, fractures—and thus, differentiate themselves from the norms of modern urbanism and conventional design practices.

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978-1-944214-31-9