Urban Andes

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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"Urban Andes" was edited by Viviana d’Auria, Ward Verbakel and Basil Descheemaeker.

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

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

Yes, "Urban Andes" is part of the "LAP - Landscape and Architecture Projections" series. It's book 1 in the series.

LAP - Landscape and Architecture Projections

LAP – Landscape Architecture Projections – is a peer-reviewed book series that focuses on design research in the fields of architecture, urbanism and landscape. It highlights innovative design thinking and practices worldwide that boldly and creatively address the most pressing socio-political, ecological and spatial issues of contemporary times. It emphasizes collaborative and cooperative approaches to working with diverse stakeholders – from activists and civil society to governmental agencies, as well an expansive range of disciplines. The series will pursue research practices that occur beyond mainstream sites, assignments and programs. The visual components, including graphic, photographic, cartographic and illustrative content, are explicitly critical and essential foils
to textual insights.

Series editors

Kelly Shannon, KU Leuven
Ward Verbakel, KU Leuven

Editorial Board

Eliana Barbosa, The Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Margarita Jover Biboum, Tulane University/ aldayjover architecture and landscape
Gérald Ledent, UC Louvain
Xiaoxuan Lu, Hong Kong University
Fadi Masoud, University of Toronto

Proposals

Proposals and enquiries can be sent to the series editors.
Please make use of the submission form to present your manuscript or proposal to our board.
Authors interested in Open Access can consult the available funding options.

Links & Resources

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

The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) for "Urban Andes" is 10.11116/9789461664594.