Our markets prioritize capital investment over the built environment.
Can we identify this phenomenon? How might we challenge it?
Conical Intersect, 1975. Gordon Matta-Clark.
Whitney Museum of American Art.
Unbuilding, 1987. David Macaulay.
New York Public Library.
War and Architecture, 1993. Lebbeus Woods.
Lebbeus Woods.
Chicken Shed, 2017. Rachel Witheread.
Belvedere Museum Wien.
It's 2024.
Land resources have become increasingly scarce.
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It's 2124.
There are no more developable lands.
This shift has given rise to a new movement: the Reusenaissance.
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CDP assignments from the Summer semester.
Too experimental to fit the narrative, too much effort to abandon.