Arquitectura del disenso

Colin Ward, one of the leading anarchist thinkers of the second half of the 20th century, was also a tireless observer of the social history of urban planning and life: he devoted more than twenty books to popular and unofficial forms of construction and manipulation. from the city. The interventions collected in this anthology document his reflections on architecture and urban planning, carried out with the precision of the scholar, the freshness of the self-taught person, and the passion of the militant. Ward's irregular and participatory gaze -ahead of his time in his ability to closely link architecture and ecology- traces the "seeds under the snow" of a possible genealogy of alternative construction practices, linking the most disparate experiences and figures: from Bernard Rudofsky to the stonemasons of the Middle Ages, from Giancarlo De Carlo to the "improvised landscapes" of southern England, without forgetting the self-builders of all times.