Echoes of a Market

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Portada revista numero 14 Materia Arquitectura USS
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Publicado: jun 12, 2017
DOI: https://doi.org/10.56255/ma.v0i14.25

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African Urbanism
Marketplace
Addis Merkato
Urban Market
Horizontality
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Núm. 14 (2016): Materia Arquitectura 14 (Diciembre/December 2016)
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This article examines the constructed identity of Addis Merkato – the central marketplace of Ethiopia – as a testament to the possibilities embedded in avoiding overdetermination. This has liberated the market to constantly reconfigure itself over its eighty-year history. The shifting political, cultural and economic contexts have introduced multiple interventions that have attempted but failed to limit new forms of occupation. Merkato has absorbed conflicting agendas via the invention of nimble design strategies. It is a space that reveals the difficulties of operating within the confines of neoliberalism. The beauty of the market is simply framed by its ability to translate constraints into opportunities. Today, the market remains an architecture of robust networks that continue to resist both local and global forces of limitation.

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Emanuel Admassu
Rhode Island School of Design
Admassu, E. (2017). Echoes of a Market. Materia Arquitectura, (14), 108–111. https://doi.org/10.56255/ma.v0i14.25

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