Cycles – Terra

Lisbon Architecture Triennale

Through eight essays focusing on pressing issues in the architectural and urban design fields, Retroactive reflects on the challenges and opportunities in addressing broken cities, which fail to provide services and optimal liveable conditions to their inhabitants, and in which one third of humanity dwells. Migration, land tenure, water, sanitation, overcrowding, waste, violence, and mobility are the guiding topics explored by the authors, creating a heterogeneous corpus of knowledge nurturing past, present, and future discussions on the fragile and constantly evolving relationship between human life and its environment.

Essays by:
Alberto Bolaños
Anthony Acciavatti
Cary Siress
José Pablo Ambrosi
Jota Samper
Kate Ascher
Laila Iskandar
Loreta Castro Reguera
Marc Angélil
Pablo Goldin
Rahul Mehrotra
Román Meyer
Sol Camacho