ABSTRACT
The architecture of the underprivileged classes is a production alongside the Modern Movement. The epithets used to describe it are distractions that mask the realities of life in the economically underprivileged neighborhoods. The debates surrounding its tectonic visual representations tend to sideline it as traditional or vernacular. Although we are in the twenty-first century and the contexts are ever-evolving, certain human and environmental challenges (poor housing, extreme poverty, unemployment, lack of infrastructure) caused by industrialization and lack of governmental foresight in European cities from the nineteenth century are present in the cities of the developing parts of the world. Leaders of cities in the recently industrializing countries of the world have not solved the problems of habitation, transportation, and recreation, which the historical avant-garde identified in the early decades of the twentieth century. Despite the fact that improved communications in the digital world facilitates job execution from remote settings, unsustainable expanding highway systems and sprawl seem to be the default response to modernization and urban growth.
