The link below leads to the Subtopia forum discussion about the aesthetic respresentations of slums / favelas / shantytowns by artists like Dionisio Gonzales, with comments by architect Lebbeus Woods: http://subtopia.blogspot.com/2007/11/squatter-imaginaries.html The work of Gonzalez tricks the eye, making the slum look like an abstract composition of materials, and indeed very spacy streets. The question [...]
Hungry inhabitants of Gaza invading the nomansland leading to Egypt, where they intend to do some shopping. In the process they leave the Israeli barriers look like a Richard Serra sculpture. http://subtopia.blogspot.com/2008/01/small-death-in-nomadic-fotress-bossom.html
Known initially as VLP, than informally as Fura-Fila and as Paulistão, the project was notorious between 1997 and 2006 for its gigantic unfinished overhead structures hovering over the Avenida do Estado. The curious name Fura-Fila in portuguese suggests not exactly the solution to the traffic problem as a whole, but rather the temporary priviliging of [...]
