Showing posts with label shadow cities. Show all posts
Showing posts with label shadow cities. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Mundus Mound

These were my boards for submission into the ACSA Steel Competition for 2008. It was in the spring semester of 2008 that I became interested in regionalist and incremental approaches to architecture thanks to my studio with Prof. Bennett and my seminar with Prof. Bechhoeffer.































Months later I have been finding images in Brazil of similar cases of what I proposed a year ago. This is the Edifício São Vito in São Paulo, Brazil:

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Robert Neuwirth's "Shadow Cities"

A TED talk by a somewhat pushy and dramatic journalist, but still a good overview of the future of cities and their slums.