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Highly recommended: "Small Scale, Big Change" in MoMa, New York

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Created on Thursday, 16 December 2010 14:07

"Small Scale, Big Change: New Architectures of Social Engagement (Museum of Modern Art, New York from October 3, 2010January 3, 2011) presents eleven building projects on five continents that bring innovative architecture to underserved communities. The featured architects address the functional requirements of their designs but also aim to have a broad positive effect on the communities they work in, as partners in social, economic, and political transformation beyond the boundaries of their often modest sites. In addition to new modes of participatory design, the projects on display incorporate pioneering site-specific ecological and socially sustainable practices, including the exploration of both new and traditional materials. Populations that have previously rarely enjoyed the attention of architects are engaged in designs incorporating innovation worthy of the broadest attention. The renewed commitment of these architects and many of their colleagues to socially responsible architecture is reminiscent of the ideals of twentieth-century masters, but these designers eschew their predecessors utopian, wholesale blueprints for change imposed from above. Small Scale, Big Change presents radically pragmatic, acupunctural projectslimited interventions with wide-reaching effects." Source and Read More: http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2010/smallscalebigchange/index.html