Arquitecturas de la justicia espacial

A pioneering work demonstrating how architects break with professional conventions to advance spatial justice and design more equitable buildings and cities.

As violence, pandemic, and environmental collapse have brought systemic inequalities into sharp relief, architects and urban planners have been forced to confront how their actions contribute to racism and the climate crisis, and how they might effect change. Dana Cuff establishes an ethic of spatial justice for architecture to move forward, showing why the discipline requires critical examination not only in relation to buildings and the capital required to realize them, but also to privilege, power, aesthetics, and sociality. That is, it requires a reevaluation of architecture's foundational tenets.

Organized around projects and themes, Architectures of Spatial Justice is a compelling blend of theory, history, and applied practice that focuses on two foundational conditions of architecture: its relationship to the public and its reliance on capital. The book draws on studies of architectural projects from around the world, with instructive case studies from Chile, Mexico, Japan, and the United States that focus particularly on urban centers, where architecture is most directly engaged with issues of social justice.

ISBN: 9780262545211