Beyond Aeeess to Housing P. 59. Social Welfare or Free Market Eeonomy? P. 61. Minha Casa, Minha Vida - Entidades P. 64. Undoing the Standards P. 66.
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In 2009, Brazil launched the mass housing program “Minha Casa, Minha Vida” (“My House, My Life”), which aims to build 3.4 million housing units by the end of 2014. By reexamining the program at a critical time, Minha Casa, Nossa Cidade (“My House, Our City”) attempts to hack the production of mass housing and tackle the profound social changes currently underway in Brazil. In three chapters, the book reviews the history and implementation of the government program, highlights the ingenuity of “Popular Brazilian Architecture,” and presents design proposals by MAS Urban Design for low-cost housing. Building on the program’s success in broadening access to housing, Minha Casa, Nossa Cidade puts forth a vision for the city as a common project and the transformation of monotonous urban areas into popular neighborhoods—living environments that can be appropriated according to individual as well as collective needs.
ETH Zürich MAS Urban Design
Minha Casa –
A S S NO ! E D CIDA Innovating Mass Housing for Social Change in Brazil
Edited by Marc Angélil & Rainer Hehl in collaboration with Something Fantastic
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Minha CasaNossa Cidade! Innovating Mass Housing for Social Change in Brazil
MAS URBAN DESIGN Penny Alevizou Delvis Anes Nikoletta Arkouda Nitin Bathla Sandra Becker Christos Chontos Alejandra Climent Monsalve Francisca de los Campos Alexander Daxböck Martin Dumont Valeria Erasmo Zoi Georgiou Eleni Giakoumaki Stephanie Keszi
Fani Kostourou Metaxia Markaki Natalia Michailidou Kate Mutzke Vasiliki Nikoloutsou Isavella Oikonomopoulou Eleni Papadaki Andreas Papadantonakis Despina Papadopoulou Georgia Papathanasiou loanna Sourvinou Apostolos Tsikas Christina Tsouma Gerhard Ungersböck
Rainer Hehl, Director of Studies Julian Schubert Elena Schütz Leonard Streich
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CONTENT Minha Casa-Nossa Cidade: From "Minha Vida" to "Nossa Cidade" P.3 Written by Rainer Hehl
PART 1: MCMV MINHA CASA, MINHA VIDA PROGRAM
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A Short Introduetion to Brazilian Mass Housing P.15 MCMV Program Overview P. 30 Beyond Aeeess to Housing P. 59 Social Welfare or Free Market Eeonomy? P. 61 Minha Casa, Minha Vida - Entidades P. 64 Undoing the Standards P. 66 Progress or "Dejä Vu"? P. 68 Sorry for the Ineonvenienee, We are Changing Brazil P. 70 Aeeess to Housing versus Aceess to the City -Interview with Junia Santa Rosa P. 72
PART 2: APB ARQUITETURA POPULAR BRASILEIRA rA Review of Contemporary Brazilian Vernaeular P. 77
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An Index of Popular Brazilian Arehiteeture (Exeerpt) P. 82 A Language for Popu/ar Architeeture P. 125 A Non-Authoritative Approach towards Architeeture P. 127 We Make Our Buildings, and Then They Make Us P.129 Vernaeular Modernism P. 132 Popular Arehitecture as a Political Project P. 134 A New and Radical Vocabulary P. 136 Choque de Ordem P. 138 Cultural Exchange and Urban Integration -Interview with Letieia Monte P. 140
PART 3: MCNC MINHA CASA NOSSA CIDADE PROJECTS Innovated Brazilian Mass Housing for Social Change P.143 Charter of Claims P. 146 Rio de Janeiro: Colönia Juliano Moreira P. 155 Mutual Growth P.176 Charged Voids P. 200 Undoing the City of Diehotomies P.220 Säo Paulo: Brasiländia P. 227 Inhabiting the Edge P. 250 Looking at the Urban Edge P. 275 Brasilia: Santa Maria P. 281 The Urban Satellite P. 302 The Satellite City as Future Urban Model P. 325 Aguas Claras P. 330 Para: Parauapebas P. 335 Networked Infill P. 362 [1 m', 25 ha] P. 380 Whatever Happened to the Amazon? P. 405
MCNC Diretrizes: Guidelines for Improving the MCMV Program P.413 Models in Cireulation - A Tale Of Two Citles P. 461 Written by Mare Angelil and Cary Siress
Contributors P. 492 Image Credits P. 495 Colophon P. 496
