Slum aesthetics
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 [...]
