"SMALL SCALE, BIG CHANGE: New Architectures of Social Engagement"
27/10/2010.
MoMA [NYC] USA 10.3.2010 > 1.3.2011
metalocus, JOSÉ JUAN BARBA
metalocus, JOSÉ JUAN BARBA
Architecture is rediscovering its social conscience. That’s the message behind “Small Scale, Big Change: New Architectures of Social Engagement,” an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, organized by Andres Lepik and Margot Weller.
Metro Cable. 2007–10. Caracas, Venezuela. Urban-Think Tank.
Metro Cable. 2007–10. Caracas, Venezuela. Urban-Think Tank.
Map of proposals
Housing for the Fishermen of Tyre. 1998–2008. Tyre, Lebanon. Hashim Sarkis A.L.U.D.
Manguinhos Complex. 2005–10. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Jorge Mario Jáuregui / Metrópolis Porjectos Urbanos.
Red Location Museum of Struggle. 1998–2005. Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Noero Wolff Architects
METI – Handmade School. 2004–06. Rudrapur, Bangladesh. Anna Heringer and Eike Roswag.
The show, which looks at 11 projects around the world that have had major social impacts despite modest budgets and sizes, is a rebuttal to the familiar complaint that the profession is too focused on aesthetic experimentation and not enough on the lives of ordinary people.
The juxtaposition of the two images — one in an obscure African village, the other less than mile from Los Angeles’s cultural acropolis — underscore one of the show’s central themes: that architecture’s potential as an agent of social healing is not restricted to the developing world.
