Browsing Architecture by Subject "reappropriation"

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Obus: Intent and Inhabitation

Jeong, Jeremy (University of Waterloo, 2019-09-23)

First proposed by Le Corbusier for the city of Algiers in 1932 but never built, the Plan Obus is Le Corbusier’s ultimate city planning project. The forerunner of the megastructures projects of the 1960s, it sits squarely ...
Repairs and Reappropriations: Examining Cultures of Care, Production, Agency in Bombay/Mumbai Chawls

Merchant, Alefiyah Murtuza (University of Waterloo, 2023-10-23)

This thesis is driven by unravelling the intricate dynamics of ‘marramat’/repair. As the focus broadened, the work began to consider reappropriation and reuse as spatial tactics of agency. The research is anchored within ...