In Latin America, the "Leyes de Indias" that regulated the political, social, and economic life of the Spanish colonies strongly affected the shape of the territory (of its organization, development, and structuring), determined its property structure, how the land was exploited and worked, but also, influenced its societies, the forms, and hierarchies by which they organized themselves. In the city of Buenos Aires, the topographical conformation, the characteristics of the soils, and the economic, social, and cultural dynamics have been articulated, consolidating, over time, patterns of occupation, control, and production of urban space in which the grid constitutes basically the only device of articulation between domestic (private) and collective (public) space, acting, simultaneously, as an integrating mechanism and as a materialization of inequalities. Indeed, the hegemony, strength and pervasiveness of the urban chessboard have survived the reformist instances and modernist formulations of the 20th century, absorbing, and resisting them, consolidating itself as a reference model, parameter, and instrument of comparison and validation of any urban design practice. Nevertheless, in the 1970s, a substantial series of projects that attempted to completely rethink and reformulate the urban form was implemented, thanks to the impetus given by the Plan de Erradicación de Villas de Emergencia (PEVE). The initiative possesses characteristics of absolute exceptionality for the quantity, quality, and variety of design solutions built and the multiplicity of designers involved. Aware of the complex entanglement of reasons that have excluded these experiences from the theoretical and operational study of urban morphology, the paper proposes an investigation of the concrete material outcomes, redeeming the value of an experience that seems to be able to provide indications for designing the contemporary city within a logic of hybridization and socio-spatial articulation that overcomes the dualities that characterize (not only) the Latin American reality.

Alternative Cities. The PEVE Programme, Mass Housing Proposals, and Urban Form Transitions in 1970s Argentina / Gomes, Santiago. - STAMPA. - (2024), pp. 442-448. (Intervento presentato al convegno Modern futures. Sustainable development and cultural diversity. 18th International Docomomo Conference & Student Workshop tenutosi a Santiago de Chile nel 10-14 December 2024).

Alternative Cities. The PEVE Programme, Mass Housing Proposals, and Urban Form Transitions in 1970s Argentina

Santiago Gomes
2024

Abstract

In Latin America, the "Leyes de Indias" that regulated the political, social, and economic life of the Spanish colonies strongly affected the shape of the territory (of its organization, development, and structuring), determined its property structure, how the land was exploited and worked, but also, influenced its societies, the forms, and hierarchies by which they organized themselves. In the city of Buenos Aires, the topographical conformation, the characteristics of the soils, and the economic, social, and cultural dynamics have been articulated, consolidating, over time, patterns of occupation, control, and production of urban space in which the grid constitutes basically the only device of articulation between domestic (private) and collective (public) space, acting, simultaneously, as an integrating mechanism and as a materialization of inequalities. Indeed, the hegemony, strength and pervasiveness of the urban chessboard have survived the reformist instances and modernist formulations of the 20th century, absorbing, and resisting them, consolidating itself as a reference model, parameter, and instrument of comparison and validation of any urban design practice. Nevertheless, in the 1970s, a substantial series of projects that attempted to completely rethink and reformulate the urban form was implemented, thanks to the impetus given by the Plan de Erradicación de Villas de Emergencia (PEVE). The initiative possesses characteristics of absolute exceptionality for the quantity, quality, and variety of design solutions built and the multiplicity of designers involved. Aware of the complex entanglement of reasons that have excluded these experiences from the theoretical and operational study of urban morphology, the paper proposes an investigation of the concrete material outcomes, redeeming the value of an experience that seems to be able to provide indications for designing the contemporary city within a logic of hybridization and socio-spatial articulation that overcomes the dualities that characterize (not only) the Latin American reality.
2024
9789566204220
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