not architecture
From an interview (not as yet online) with Oscar Niemeyer in this month’s Metropolis:
You built you personal driver’s house in a favela here in Rio. Is it a good example of architecture helping those who are excluded?
Yes, but we are talking here about my driver – my dear friend for more than half a century. He is a Brazilian man, a poor man, one who was born poor and will die poor. Of course his life is improved with his new house, but this is an exception. Housing is always the beginning of any change in someone’s life. One needs to have a worthy place to live, and the state should provide it to everybody. But I insist that the answer to this change is not architecture. It is revolution.
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