Illegal Architecture

Taipei, Taiwan

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Illegal Architecture

Taipei, Taiwan

Firm

Hsieh Ying-Chun
Wang-Shu
WEAK!

Type

Cultural › Gallery
Industrial › Research Facility

YEAR

2011

http://casagrandetext.blogspot.com/2011/03/illegal-architecture.htmlIllegal architecture comes in many forms. You have the horizontal and
vertical illegal extensions of the apartment buildings, illegal houses
and illegal communities such as Treasure Hill or the Amis urban village by the Xindian River,
pigeon houses, beetle-nut booths, temples and even moving architecture
like the Taiwanese street-style operas or night-market booths. The point
is that this fruitful culture of self-made architecture has only been
illegal as long as the “official” city has been in the picture. These
flexible, moving, adjustable and pliant forms of urban nomad structures
have always been. Official city is the newcomer. Illegal architecture
is a new name for the citizen’s right to express himself through
architecture. These guys don’t need architects, they are the architects
themselves. They are more resourceful and creative that the “official”
architects corrupted by the university teaching, building industry and
laws and codes of construction.Official city wants to get rid of anything spontaneous coming straight
from the human nature. This means “illegal” architecture and “illegal”
gardens in the urban stage instead of self-made home and growing of
food. Industrial city is a machine designed to regulate human life.
Illegal architecture is closer to nature including human nature and so
against any kind of control.

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Illegal Architecture

Taipei, Taiwan

Illegal Architecture

Taipei, Taiwan

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