Archinect - News 2024-12-22T07:32:54-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/116574409/polish-architect-investigates-shadow-architecture-of-the-informal Polish Architect Investigates "Shadow Architecture" of the Informal Nicholas Korody 2014-12-22T13:07:00-05:00 >2014-12-27T21:33:06-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/oy/oyeu7bl17txv8439.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Aleksandra Wasilkowska, the vice-president of the Polish Architectural Association in Warsaw, doesn&rsquo;t care much for skyscrapers... Street stalls, collapsible tables, carts, and makeshift homeless shelters are but a few typologies of what [she] calls &ldquo;shadow architecture&rdquo; &mdash; the urban phenomena that follow the rise of an informal shadow economy. Its key figures include street peddlers and traders...not urban planners or corporate designers</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><head><meta></head></html>