Torre David : informal vertical communities / Urban-Think Tank, Chair of Architecture and Urban Design, ETH Zürich ; photographs by Iwan Baan.

Zürich : Lars Müller ; London : Springer [distributor], ©2013.

415 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans ; 25 cm

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 facilities such as an improvised doctor's office, shops, and more. Photographer Iwan Baan has documented Torre David and its occupants, creating a portrait that captures the contradictions of the place while at the same time revealing urban structures that have emerged dynamically and without planning. 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, Klumpner holds a chair in architecture and urban design at the Swiss Institute of Technology, Zurich. Iwan Baan, born in Alkmaar, Netherlands, in 1975, is an architecture and documentary photographer.

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Torre David (Caracas, Venezuela) Pictorial works.
Torre David (Caracas, Venezuela)
Skyscrapers Venezuela Caracas Design and construction Pictorial works.
Squatter settlements Venezuela Caracas Pictorial works.
Bidonvilles Venezuela Caracas Ouvrages illustrés.
Architecture and Planning.
Skyscrapers Design and construction
Squatter settlements
Hochhaus
Architektur
Bewohner
Gemeinschaft
Kommunikation
Fotografie
Venezuela Caracas

illustrated books.
Illustrated works
Pictorial works
Ouvrages illustrés.

Baan, Iwan, 1975-
Urban-Think Tank (Firm)
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich. Departement Architektur.

Informal vertical communities

Location: Library main 282797
Call No.: BIB 220575
Status: Available