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Torre David: Informal Vertical Communities
Alfredo Brillembourg
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Description for Torre David: Informal Vertical Communities
Hardback. Num Pages: 240 pages, 150. BIC Classification: AMVD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 170 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1368.
Torre David is an incomplete skyscraper in the center of the Venezuelan capital Caracas that has been occupied and reconstructed by local residents. Work on the building, named after the financial investor David Brillembourg, who died in 1993, was suspended during the Venezuelan financial crisis of 1994. After the office tower - the third highest in Venezuela - had stood empty for many years, it was taken over by the local population in 2008. The occupants made the building their own with improvisation and skill - it is a "vertical favela," now containing not just housing but also other everyday ... Read more
Torre David is an incomplete skyscraper in the center of the Venezuelan capital Caracas that has been occupied and reconstructed by local residents. Work on the building, named after the financial investor David Brillembourg, who died in 1993, was suspended during the Venezuelan financial crisis of 1994. After the office tower - the third highest in Venezuela - had stood empty for many years, it was taken over by the local population in 2008. The occupants made the building their own with improvisation and skill - it is a "vertical favela," now containing not just housing but also other everyday ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Lars Muller Publishers Switzerland
Number of pages
240
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Baden, Switzerland
ISBN
9783037782989
SKU
V9783037782989
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Ref
99-10
About Alfredo Brillembourg
ALFREDO BRILLEMBOURG was born in New York in 1961. In 1993 he founded Urban-Think Tank in Caracas, Venezuela. Since May 2010, Brillembourg holds a chair in architecture and urban design at the Swiss Institute of Technology, Zurich. HUBERT KLUMPNER was born in Salzburg in 1965. In 1998 he joined Alfredo Brillembourg as director of Urban-Think Tank in Caracas. Since 2010, ... Read more
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