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Small Scale, Big Change
Small Scale, Big Change
Small
Scale, Big Change
October
3rd, 2010 – January 3rd, 2011
Architecture
can be a powerful means to change social conditions. Through the tools of
design, architects can address social inequality with discreet actions. Small Scale, Big Change presents eleven
design projects from around the world that engage larger social, economic, and
political conditions and, in turn, develop an architecture that transcends the
building itself. Without sacrificing a concern for aesthetics, these
initiatives privilege process over the final product. In contrast to
architectural discussions about skyline-changing structures and name-brand
architects, this exhibition considers how architects employ materials and
processes to allow a complex development of design in service of social need.
Through close collaboration with the future users of the building and sustained
research into local conditions, the architects maintain and authenticity of
place, even as they incite change. Including schools, community centers, housing
developments, and infrastructure projects, these examples reveal an exciting
change in the dialogue between architecture and ethics, wherein the architect's
roles, methods, and responsibilities are dramatically reconsidered. Here, the
architect is as much a moderator of a social process as a designer of an
object.
Scale, Big Change
October
3rd, 2010 – January 3rd, 2011
Architecture
can be a powerful means to change social conditions. Through the tools of
design, architects can address social inequality with discreet actions. Small Scale, Big Change presents eleven
design projects from around the world that engage larger social, economic, and
political conditions and, in turn, develop an architecture that transcends the
building itself. Without sacrificing a concern for aesthetics, these
initiatives privilege process over the final product. In contrast to
architectural discussions about skyline-changing structures and name-brand
architects, this exhibition considers how architects employ materials and
processes to allow a complex development of design in service of social need.
Through close collaboration with the future users of the building and sustained
research into local conditions, the architects maintain and authenticity of
place, even as they incite change. Including schools, community centers, housing
developments, and infrastructure projects, these examples reveal an exciting
change in the dialogue between architecture and ethics, wherein the architect's
roles, methods, and responsibilities are dramatically reconsidered. Here, the
architect is as much a moderator of a social process as a designer of an
object.
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