La Ladera Library, Fighting crime and poverty with design and inclusion

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Fighting crime and poverty with design and inclusion. La Ladera Architects : Giancarlo Mazzanti

Around the world, followers of architecture with a capital A have focused so much of their attention on formal experiments, as if aesthetics and social activism, twin Modernist concerns, were mutually exclusive. But Medellín is proof that they’re not, and shouldn’t be. Architecture, here and elsewhere, acts as part of a larger social and economic ecology, or else it elects to be a luxury, meaningless except to itself — NYT 


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