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Grounds for Detroit
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Venice, Italy
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Grounds for Detroit
Venice, Italy
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2012
Grounds for Detroit is a collaborative installation by 13178 Moran Street, a loose collective of five practices: Catie Newell of *Alibi Studio; Ellie Abrons with Adam Fure; MILLIGRAM-office; SCHAUM/SHIEH; and Thom Moran. The project is part of the 13th International Architecture Exhibition at the 2012 Biennale di Venezia, curated by David Chipperfield under the theme Common Ground. In part, the installation revisits a project from 2010, where the five practices collectively bought the abandoned single-family house at 13178 Moran St. in Detroit, Michigan for $500 cash at public auction and constructed five distinct architectural interventions. Curator’s Text:"This room is a collaboration between five young architecture practices whose work is a piece of action research, responding to one of the most serious issues for western cities today: that of shrinkage and urban vacancy. The city of Detroit is the most often cited example of this phenomenon, the population dwindling as heavy industries that once provided employment and social cohesion disappear. These architects did not wait to be asked for their point of view on the city's problems, but sought a place to work in this unique urban context. The five bought a derelict house on Moran Street, Detroit for $500 and set to work, transforming the house into a location for their experiments. They have re-imagined them in the Arsenale, evoking at 1:1 the space of the Moran Street house. In addition, the architects have selected a collection of work from and on the subject of Detroit that embodies the spirit of common ground. This is a project that shows how young architects' resourcefulness can find new grounds for collaboration and experiment, and that the work of architects does not require bureaucratic sanction to make a meaningful contribution."-David Chipperfield, Director of the exhibitionA collaboration between Ellie Abrons, Adam Fure, James Graham, Meredith Miller, Thom Moran, Catie Newell, Rosalyne Shieh, and Troy Schaum
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