The blog will involve research and the presentation of materials in several formats addressing issues related to a forthcoming 282 Architecture Design Studio (in Spring). The studio will design accommodation for the PSU Social Practice Master of Fine Arts program. This program emphasizes community engagement through non-studio creative activities executed in the field.

1/23/2008

Total Exhibition Structure - Archigram










Model of the Total Exhibition Structure, "Living City," 1963. Unable to realize the ideal solution of a plastic bubble, the designers of "Living City"opted fora lightweight, transportable triangulated metal frame with panels, familiar in geodesics. A paradox became well known to Archigram architects: the disavowal of form (the subject of the exhibition was urban mood) created dynamic forms.
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