Contemporary public spaces; innovative architecture, landscape, and urban design
Exhibit at the National Building Museum in Washington, DC running January 15 through May 15, 2005.
If a democracy is defined by the character of its discourse and public debate, the success of that democracy must be measured by the quantity and quality of its public spaces, the venues where citizens gather for cultural and civic interaction... a range of projects from memorials to new types of urban plazas and parks, from Macon, Georgia, to Melbourne, Australia, to Johannesburg, South Africa.Featured designers include: Will Alsop, Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio, Craig Dykers, Peter Eisenman, Zaha Hadid, Walter Hood, Marion Weiss and Michael Manfredi, Peter Walker, Michael Van Valkenburgh, Rafael Viñoly and Norman Foster.
Originally posted 1/9/2005
Link: National Building Museum