Informalising Architecture: The Challenge of Informal Settlements

• DOI: 10.1002/ad.1679
• Publication Date: 2013-11-14T21:03:07Z
• Authors: Kim Dovey
• Keywords: Subversion; Human settlement; Informal Settlements; Marine transgression; Settlement (finance)

Abstract Transgression is often driven by the power to exercise choice and consciously cross line. As Kim Dovey , Professor of Architecture Urban Design at University Melbourne, explains, informal settlements, which have grown up globally out immediate need for shelter community, are legally precarious, transgress established codes ‘land tenure, urban planning, design construction’. Their condition requires transgression, even if they subversion through necessity rather than design. So what architecture's future role in settlements? And can be learnt from this more ad hoc incremental model design?