This article is an exerpt from the publication Pure Space: expanding the public sphere through public space transfromations in Latin American spontanoues settlements.
If creating public space in spontaneous settlements were embraced as an effective investment to increase social inclusion and better integrate Latin American cities, how much would have to be built?
This article is an exerpt from the publication Pure Space: expanding the public sphere through public space transfromations in Latin American spontanoues settlements.
The Juan Bobo creek is part of Comuna 2, a densely populated urban district on the northeastern slopes of Medellin. As space for new homes ran out and demand for housing continued to increase, people built precarious structures directly over the creek, exposing themselves to the risk of floods and landslides.
Plataforma Arquitectura disseminates the virtual event "Alter-actions: art, learning and participation" held on June 11 and 18, 2020 in the context of the exhibition Complete city: La Palomera, acknowledgement and celebration.
Working with the community of an informal settlement in Venezuela, Enlace Arquitectura restored a node for the social life of the community that was critically deteriorated. Built in 2018, Plaza Jorge Somaca reactivated the neighborhood providing pedestrians with a meeting point for all kinds of social practices.
This article in Plataforma Arquitectura reports on the conference held on February 27, 2020, where the Venice Biennale presented the participants of the 17th International Architecture Exhibition, and the general program of the event. Titled “How will we live together?” and curated by Hashim Sarkis, the show will be open to the public from May 23 to November 29, 2020.
"How will we live together?" is the theme of the Biennial of Architecture in Venice, 221. The arsenal space and the gardens will host the exhibition which will be organized into five scales, ranging from the individual to the territory.
The article written by Yusmary Coccia in the blog Alternos about the inauguration of the exhibition “Complete City: La Palomera, acknowledgement and celebration,” which took place February 15 at La Hacienda La Trinidad Cultural Park, rescues the exhibit’s invitation to question the negative stigma with which people usually see the barrio and to discover it as part of the city.
Prodavinci published a review of the event "Nothing out of the ordinary: Meeting and discovery in La Palomera," written by Cheo Carvajal, on October 23, 2019. The event was held on October 12 at the Casa de Todos in the Municipality of Baruta, and is part of the program "Integration in Caracas Process".
The newspaper El Nacional published an article on October 8, 2019 to disseminate the selection of the San Juan María Vianney Church as one of the winners of the XI Iberoamerican Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism (XI BIAU) in the category of built works, held in Asunción Paraguay. In the 2019 edition, 997 Latin American projects were presented, of which 17 were winners. The works were built in countries such as Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal, Uruguay and Venezuela.