Urban Andes

Design-led explorations to tackle climate change

Viviana d’Auria (Editor), Ward Verbakel (Editor), Basil Descheemaeker (Editor),

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Series: LAP - Landscape and Architecture Projections 1

Category: Americas, Anthropocene Studies, Architecture and Urban Planning, Climate and Ecology, Urban Studies

Language: English

ISBN: 9789462703353

Publication date: August 21, 2022

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Number of pages: 180

Size: 240 x 170 x 12 mm

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Series: LAP - Landscape and Architecture Projections 1

Category: Americas, Anthropocene Studies, Architecture and Urban Planning, Climate and Ecology, Urban Studies

Language: English

DOI: 10.11116/9789461664594

ISBN: 9789461664594

Publication date: August 21, 2022

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Number of pages: 180

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About the Editors

First volume in the new series LAP – an innovative series on architecture, urbanism, and landscape

Against the backdrop of climate change and intensifying human occupation, explorative design strategies can play a role in recalibrating the relation between landscape logics and urbanization patterns in the Andes.

Urban Andes marks the start of the new series LAP on innovative design research in architecture, urbanism, and landscape. It is the result of a two-year collaboration (2018-2020), initiated by the CCA in cooperation with KU Leuven and various partners, including local organizations and the VLIR-UOS. A co-production of students, researchers and designers, this book suggests alternative futures in the light of climate change in the Andes, crossing scales of landscape systems to new settlement typologies within the Cachi River basin of Ayacucho, Peru.

Contributors: Basil Descheemaeker (KU Leuven / UCL-LOCI), Ward Verbakel (KU Leuven), Viviana d’Auria (KU Leuven), Margarita Macera Carnero (KU Leuven), Monica Rivera Muñoz (KU Leuven), Louise Blancquaert (KU Leuven), Elisabeth De Clerq (KU Leuven), Thomas Hawer (KU Leuven), Willem Hubrechts (KU Leuven), Sigrid Vangeneugden (KU Leuven), Bruno De Meulder (KU Leuven), Bram Willems (CCA).

This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).

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A FRAME

3 FOREWORD

7 (RE)FRAMING THE URBAN ANDES

21 PARALLEL NARRATIVES FOR CITY AND BASIN

B PROJECTION

89 WORKSHOP #1 FROM BASIN TO CITY

103 THESIS EXPLORATIONS EMERGING NEIGHBOURHOODS

131 WORKSHOP #2 (RE)DEFINING AYACUCHO

153 AN ONLINE CONVERSATION

Viviana d’Auria

Viviana d’Auria is an associate professor in international urbanism at KU Leuven and co-head of the Urban Design, Urbanism, Landscape and Planning division.

Ward Verbakel

Ward Verbakel is partner at plusoffice architects, guest professor at KU Leuven, and member of the artistic board of A+ Architecture in Belgium.

Basil Descheemaeker

Basil Descheemaeker is a Brussels-based architect and landscape designer, and guest lecturer at UCL-LOCI.

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