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December 5 , 2000 - January 12, 2001
The opposition between the formal city and the informal city is unquestionably the locus of Jauregui’s work: the erasure of that opposition, the hybridization of the conflictive line – or zone – of physical contact between the two city fabrics. For ten years, the Jauregi team has aspired to turn many favelas into bairros, functioning neighborhoods that have been improved and integrated to the adjacent city. The differences before and after the Jauregui team’s work are phenomenal; clearly the livelihood, the connectivity, and the overall social wellbeing of the communities are immensely improved. There is an anti-declamatory type of intellectual attitude in the team. The team fully embraces the site-specificity of its work and does not claim universal value for its actions. For the team, architectural image results from local circumstances, and not from formal architectural will. They are aware that architecture serves a social purpose, and it must be understood in order to be embraced, accepted, maintained, and kept functioning by the people.
This exhibition was curated by Brooke Hodge, Director of Exhibitions and Publications
The Veronica Rudge Green Prize in Urban Design was established in 1986 on the occasion of the celebration of Harvard's 350th and the Graduate School of Design's 50th anniversaries, and to mark the visit of his Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales, to Harvard and the GSD. The award is made periodically by the GSD for an urban design project larger in scope than a single building, constructed anywhere in the world during the pervious ten years. Awad-winning projects are selected because they make a positive and substantial contribution to the public realm of a city, improve the quality of urban life, and demonstrate a humane direction for the design of urban environments.
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