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visit Architecture For Humanity and assist with whatever you can. These terrific people once again have a plan in action...architectureforhumanity.org. Many thanks...Michael

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London exhibit probes parallels between architecture and fashion

"Skin + Bones, Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture" (at the new Embankment Galleries in London's Somerset House until Aug. 10) is a fascinating study of how the two crafts have run separ... Continue

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Interbau: The Modernization of Germany

The architecture exhibit Interbau, which opened in July 1957 in Berlin, came to be seen as an example of Germany's modernization and a side effect of the Cold War. Join us on a photographic tour of... Continue

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Mould Manifesto against Rationalism in Architecture

Painting and sculpture are now free, inasmuch as anyone may produce any sort of creation and subsequently display it. In architecture, however, this fundamental freedom, which must be regarded as a precondition for any art, does not exist, for a person must first have a diploma in order to build. Why? Everyone should be able to build, and as long as this freedom to build does not exist, the present-day planned architecture cannot be considered art at all. Our architecture has succumbed to the s… Continue

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Paolo Soleri interviewed by Jerry Brown JB: Welcome to another edition of "We the People". This hour we have a very special guest from Arizona, Paolo Soleri, an author, a visionary, an architect, a pioneer of new human spaces. He's the author of Arcosanti, an Urban Laboratory, the Book Technology and Cosmogenesis, the Archology, the City in the Image of Man, the Omega Seed, and that's got a logical hypothesis. I first met Paolo Soleri many, many years ago when he was visiti… Continue

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Mobile Art Park


When we were fantasizing about Venice as a reconfigurable jigsaw puzzle, we had in mind, among other things, PARA's submission for an ideas competition to “rejuventate” the “ruins” of New York City's Roosevelt Island.

Called Mobile Art Park, it's a cultural and sports complex conceived as a “network of floating barges.”

The barges form a migrating network that extends throughout the regional waters of New York’s five boroughs and beyond. Linking together in multiple combinations, the barges accommodate different events at the scale of the entire Southpoint site. Dispersed throughout the city, the barges bridge culturally disparate enclaves with the vibrant communities of artists already thriving in the city.


Each barge, then, could hold a tennis court, a skatepark, a farm and a farmer's market, a forest or a combination thereof. There are wind turbines as well.

Mobile Art Park

Mobile Art Park

Mobile Art Park

Mobile Art Park

Having been reminded recently of MVRDV's Dutch Pavilion languishing in the now shuttered grounds of Expo 2000 in Hannover and also the ruins of Expo 1992 in Sevilla, we propose that in a future universal exposition, all buildings should rest atop floating platforms. Each one would be built in their home countries, anchored there until the start of the expo nears and the armada needs to be assembled.

In this expo, the overall theme could be future coastlines, perhaps established by Adriaan Geuze, who is hired as creative director. In his program brief, which will basically be a rehash of the one he wrote for The Flood, he'll elaborate by writing:

Climate change means that the whole world must address the issue. Around the world cities are situated on low-lying coastal zones and in delta regions where rivers enter the sea. These are amongst the most fertile areas and are well linked by sea and land to the world. But these are also cities with populations in the millions that are now highly vulnerable because of the threat of flooding.


Of course, there will be plenty of solutions to combat this threat displayed at the host city, New Orleans.

Or it could be the first ever major international event to be held on international waters, just offshore from Burma's Irrawaddy Delta with a satellite venue a few miles from Bangladesh's Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta.

As its national pavilion, the U.S. will send the supercarrier USS Nimitz.

When the expo ends, each pavilion will return to their home port, becoming art centers or public open spaces or artificial reefs.


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