Housing Shaped by Labour: The Architecture of Scarcity in Informal Settlements

by Ana Rosa Chagas Cavalcanti

Ana Rosa Chagas Cavalcanti

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This book shares the results of a decennial research aimed at finding housing solutions for unprivileged people in informal settlements of Brazil. To understand the spatial logics of these settlements, the author also lived in some of them. The participative observation revealed, that labour is the social practice which mostly designs, shapes and governs the spaces of informal settlements. The study shows how labour is a priority for people struggling with their physical survival, which overcomes those aesthetic, comfort and hygienic standards current architecture practice is entirely concerned about. Alongside the right to housing we must integrate the right to work, and labour must become the social variable in the design of housing solutions in the context of informal settlements. From theoretical discussions up to the operative realm of architecture in the global south, this book presents both the approach and challenges to better housing residents living in informal settlements.
  • ISBN10 3868595341
  • ISBN13 9783868595345
  • Publish Date 20 November 2018
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country DE
  • Imprint JOVIS Verlag
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 200
  • Language English