Dr Adriana Laura Massidda

School of Architecture and Landscape

Lecturer in Architectural Humanities

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Dr Adriana Laura Massidda
School of Architecture and Landscape
Arts Tower
Western Bank
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S10 2TN
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I am currently working in two main research areas. First, for twelve years I have been studying and reconstructing the history of Buenos Aires shantytowns. Second, in my most recent research, I have begun to investigate and expand on the environmental aspects of the processes of urban change I have found when studying precarious settlements, linking them to architectural design. In particular, I am piloting research-by-design techniques and co-design in low-income housing contexts in the UK, more specifically in the context of two social housing complexes built on top of former sewage farms in London and Leicester. I am also preparing a new project to pursue similar work in Buenos Aires, thus combining both elements of my expertise.
 

Recent publication: 

. Córdoba, Rosario y Buenos Aires. Co-edited with Valeria Snitcofsky and Eva Camelli. Buenos Aires: Café de las Ciudades, 2021. Declared  (Bien de Interés para la Comunicación Social) by the Buenos Aires Legislature in November 2023.
 
 
Research interests

Shantytown history, urban informality, urban history, social housing, (water and sewage) infrastructure, critical environmentalisms, waste, flooding, co-design, urban rivers, landscape design, phytoremediation.

Publications

Edited books

  • Snitcofsky VL, Camelli E & Massidda A (Eds.) (2021) Villas en Dictadura. Córdoba, Rosario y Buenos Aires. Buenos Aires: Café de las Ciudades. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Geraghty NHD & Massidda AL (Ed.) (2019) . London: University of London Press / Institute of Latin American Studies. RIS download Bibtex download

Journal articles

  • Massidda AL (2023) Reocupar, reconstruir, “refundar”: el repoblamiento de las villas del sur de Buenos Aires (1981-1985) [Reoccupying, rebuilding, "re-founding": the repopulation of the villas of south Buenos Aires (1981-1985). Vivienda y Ciudad, 10, 72-93. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Massidda AL (2023) . Journal of Urban History, 49(3), 552-570. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Massidda A, Camelli E & Snitcofsky V (2023) . EURE (Santiago) - Revista Latinoamericana de Estudios Urbano Regionales, 49(147), 1-21. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Massidda AL (2022) . Journal of Latin American Studies, 54(3), 553-555. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Massidda AL & Baumann H (2022) Art and the toxic politics of waste: Latin America. a roundtable discussion with filmmakers and researchers at University College London. A Contracorriente: una revista de estudios latinoamericanos, 20(1), 317-335. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Baumann H, Massidda A, Saad B, Saleh E & Stamatopoulou-Robbins S (2022) Film and the toxic politics of waste: a roundtable. e-flux Journal(127). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Massidda AL (2021) Shantytowns and social engineering in 1950s Argentina. RIBAJ: The RIBA Journal. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Massidda AL (2021) . Planning Perspectives, 36(2), 215-236. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Elinbaum P & Massidda A (2020) . Bitácora Urbano Territorial, 30(1), 115-126. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Massidda AL (2019) . Journal of Design History, 32(1), 35-51. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Massidda AL (2018) Cómo nombrar a la informalidad urbana: una revisión de las definiciones en uso, sus implicaciones analíticas y su alcance. Quid 16, 10. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Massidda AL (2018) Lo político en lo urbano. Pobreza urbana en el pasado reciente. Villa Jardín, 1958-1967. Revista Encuentros Uruguayos, XI(1), 59-72. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Massidda AL (2018) . Journal of Romance Studies, 18(2), 159-179. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Massidda AL (2018) . Bulletin of Latin American Research, 37(2), 144-159. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Massidda AL (2017) . Architecture_MPS. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Massidda AL (2017) . Carta Económica Regional, 29(120). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Massidda AL (2017) . URBANA: Revista Eletrônica do Centro Interdisciplinar de Estudos sobre a Cidade, 9(1), 15-15. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Massidda AL () . AREA - Agenda de Reflexión en Arquitectura, Diseño y Urbanismo. RIS download Bibtex download

Chapters

  • Massidda AL (2022) Entre invisibilidades y dirigencias: mujeres en villas de Buenos Aires (1958-1967) In Cravino MC (Ed.), Historia y memoria de villas y favelas (pp. 37-74). Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento RIS download Bibtex download
  • Geraghty NHD & Massidda AL (2019) The spatiality of desire in Martín Oesterheld’s La multitud (2012) and Luis Ortega’s Dromómanos (2012) In Geraghty NHD & Massidda AL (Ed.), Creative Spaces: Urban Culture and Marginality in Latin America (pp. 201-240). University of London Press, Institute of Latin American Studies RIS download Bibtex download

Dictionary/encyclopaedia entries

  • Massidda AL & Baumann H (2023) Ñܾñܱ/ٰÑ. In Wastiary: A Bestiary of Waste UCL Press. RIS download Bibtex download
Teaching interests
  • Architectural humanities
  • Architectural and landscape design
  • Research/doctoral supervision