Small Scale, Big Change

03.10.2010 - 03.01.2011

MoMA Architecture and Design Galleries 11 West Fifty-third Street New York City, USA

The architects featured in the exhibition confront inequality using the tools of design. They engage social, economic, and political conditions, developing post-utopian architectural interventions that begin with an understanding of and deference to a community. Without sacrificing a concern for aesthetics, the architects develop projects that reveal a specificity of place their architectural solutions emerge from close collaboration with future users and sustained research into local conditions. Small Scale, Big Change focuses on the process and final product, displaying materials that illustrate the complex and careful development of a design. These outstanding projects-including schools, community centers, housing, and infrastructural interventions-reveal an exciting change in the longstanding dialogue between architecture and its community, wherein the architect s roles, methods, and responsibilities are dramatically reconsidered. Here, the architect is as much a moderator of social processes as a designer of a structure.

Small Scale, Big Change explores the following projects in depth: Primary School, Gando, Burkina Faso (Diebedo Francis Kere, 1999-2001), Quinta Monroy Housing Project, Iquique, Chile (Elemental, 2003-05), Red Location Museum of Struggle, Port Elizabeth, South Africa (Noero Wolff Architects, 1998-2006), METI - Handmade School, Rudrapur, Bangladesh (Anna Heringer, 2004-06), Inner-City Arts, Los Angeles, California (Michael Maltzan Architecture, 1993-2008) Housing for the Fishermen, Tyre, Lebanon (Hashim Sarkis A.L.U.D., 1998-2008), S20K House, Hale County, Alabama (Rural Studio, 2004-present), Metro Cable, Caracas, Venezuela (Urban Think Tank, 2007-2010) Manguinhos Complex, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Jorge Mario Jauregui, 2005-present), Transformation of Housing Block / Paris 17o, Tour Bois le Pretre, Paris, France (Frederic Druot, Anne Lacaton, and Jean Philippe Vassal, 2006present), and Casa Familiar: Living Rooms at the Border and Senior Housing with Childcare in San Ysidro, California (Estudio Teddy Cruz, 2001present). The exhibition is accompanied by a publication.

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