Radical Cities: Across Latin America in Search of a New Architecture

Author(s): Justin McGuirk

ARCHITECTURAL THEORY | VERSO

In Radical Cities, Justin McGuirk travels across Latin America in search of activist architects, politicians and radical communities who have begun rebuilding and redesigning their environments in radically new ways. After decades of political and architectural failure, a new generation has returned to the problems of the city to address the poverty and inequality, testing new ideas that the rest of the world can learn from. An architect in Chile has designed a new form of social housing where only half of the house is built, allowing the owners to adapt the rest; squatters in Caracas have taken over a 45-story skyscraper, Torre David; and architect Jorge Mario Jauregui has upgraded Rio's favelas in exciting new ways.


Product Information

General Fields

  • : 9781781688687
  • : Verso Books
  • : Verso Books
  • : October 2015
  • : November 2015
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Justin McGuirk
  • : Paperback
  • : 288