RADICAL CITIES: ACROSS LATIN AMERICA IN SEARCH OF A NEW ARCHITECTURE
Book ID/图书代码： 13850014B69005
English Summary/英文概要： In Radical Cities, Justin McGuirk travels across Latin America in search of activist architects, politicians and radical communities. From Chile to Brazil, and from Mexico to Argentina, McGuirk discovers people who have begun rebuilding and redesigning their environments in radically new ways.
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; Medellín, the murder capital of Colombia, has been transformed with innovative public architecture; squatters in Caracas have taken over a 45-story skyscraper, Torre David; and architect Jorge Mario Jáuregui has upgraded Rio’s favelas in exciting new ways.
Ever since the mid-twentieth century, when modernist utopia went to Latin America to die, the continent has been a testing ground of radical ideas in city-making. Here, in the most urbanized continent on the planet, extreme cities have bred extreme conditions, from vast housing estates to sprawling slums. But after decades of political and architectural failure, a new generation has returned to the problems of the city to address the poverty and inequality. This is a generation of activists, pragmatists and social idealists, and together they are testing new ideas that the rest of the world can learn from.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 在《激进的城市》中，贾斯汀•麦克沃尔穿越整个拉丁美洲，寻找激进的建筑师，政客和组织。从智利到巴西，再从墨西哥到阿根廷，麦克沃尔发现人们正在用更为新奇，确切地说，更为激进的方式重新设计和建筑周边的环境。一位智利的建筑师设计了一种新形式的公益住房，房子的一半由施工队完成，留下另一半让屋主自由改造；而有哥伦比亚“毒枭之城”的麦德林，已被创新的公共建筑环绕；位于加拉加斯的一座违章棚屋已经超过了45层；建筑师托尔•戴维德和豪尔赫•马里奥•豪雷吉已经以激动人心的方式改造了里约热内卢的贫民窟。
自20世纪中期开始，现代主义的乌托邦理念在拉丁美洲绝迹，这篇大陆就慢慢演变成为激进主义建筑模式的试验地。在这个星球中最为城市化的土地上，极端的城市孕育了极端的条件，大片的社区和遍布的贫民屋也形成了强烈的对比。但在数十年的政治和建筑失败后，新一代人已经开始着手处理城市贫困和不等的问题。这一代人中有激进分子，实用主义者和社会理想主义者，他们实践新理念的精神是我们全世界都值得借鉴的。（XAT）
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About the Author/作者介绍： 贾斯汀•麦克沃尔是一位作家和馆长，目前还就职《卫报》的设计专栏作家和《图标》杂志的编辑。他还是史翠卡媒体的主席和《住所》的设计咨询师，贾斯汀的许多文章被刊登在《观察者》、《泰晤士报》、《迪赛诺》、《艺术评论》、《建筑期刊》等报刊杂志中。2012年，贾斯汀被授予威尼斯建筑双年展金狮奖。Justin McGuirk is a writer and curator, and has worked as the Guardian’s design columnist and the editor of Icon magazine. He is also the director of Strelka Press and the design consultant to Domus, and his writing has appeared in the Observer, the Times, Disegno, Art Review, Condé Nast Traveller, Form, the Architects Journal, Architecture d’Aujourd’hui. In 2012 he was awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale of Architecture for an exhibition he curated with Urban Think Tank.
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