CINVA to Siyabuswa: the unruly path of global self-help housing

In a pilot project for the future Bantustan capital of Siyabuswa, the South African apartheid-era state funded the research and construction of fifty-nine core houses from 1977 to 1978 before throttling the full scheme. Designed within the National Building Research Institute by Argentinian emigré a...

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Published in:ARQ (Santiago, Chile) Chile), 2024-04, Vol.116 (116), p.86-105
Main Author: Le-Roux, Hannah
Format: Article
Language:eng ; spa
Subjects:
Affordable housing
Apartheid
Architectural services
Architecture
Cold War
core units
Housing developments
mutual aid
Public housing
social housing
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Summary:In a pilot project for the future Bantustan capital of Siyabuswa, the South African apartheid-era state funded the research and construction of fifty-nine core houses from 1977 to 1978 before throttling the full scheme. Designed within the National Building Research Institute by Argentinian emigré architect Jorge Luis Arrigone, the project was an early attempt to introduce El Centro Interamericano de Vivienda y Planeamiento (Inter-American Housing and Planning Centre or CINVA) and United Nations orthodoxies of self-help housing to support displaced rural communities. Siyabuswa project's appearance and repression prompt new forms of assessment of the roles played in global architecture at the peripheries of the Global South.
ISSN:0716-0852
0717-6996
DOI:10.4067/S0717-69962024000100086