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Imperfect Health: The Medicalization of Architecture. Installation view, 2011
Imperfect Health: The Medicalization of Architecture. Installation view, 2011
Imperfect Health: The Medicalization of Architecture. Installation view, 2011
Imperfect Health: The Medicalization of Architecture. Installation view, 2011
Imperfect Health: The Medicalization of Architecture. Installation view, 2011
Imperfect Health: The Medicalization of Architecture. Installation view with Chicken by Andy Byers, 2011
Imperfect Health: The Medicalization of Architecture. Installation view, 2011
Health is a focus of contemporary political debate in a moment of historically high anxiety, but are architects, urban designers, and landscape architects seeking a new moral and political agenda within these concerns? Imperfect Health examines the complexity of today’s interrelated and emerging health problems juxtaposed with a variety of proposed architectural and urban solutions.
Imperfect Health was voted the Exhibition of the Year in 2012 by Design Observer.
Curators: Giovanna Borasi and Mirko Zardini, CCA.
Exhibition design: OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen, Brussels.
Graphic design: Jonathan Hares, Lausanne.
Research collaboration: i2a, International Institute of Architecture, Vico Morcote, Switzerland.
Selected objects
Nerea Calvillo, architect, in collaboration with C+ arquitectos and In the Air. In the Air. Toxic topography of Budapest, Hungary, 2008 Production support from LABoral
Benoît Vollmer. Dépositions. Céret, France, 2009 Pigment-based inkjet print on Japanese kozo paper, 45 x 54.5 cm © Benoît Vollmer / Courtesy Van Kranendonk Gallery
David Garcia Studio, architects. Domestic Isolation Room. 2010. Inflatable unit, before and after inflation. Plans with inflatable unit deployed throughout the residence © David Garcia Studio
Henry Dreyfuss Associates, designers, and Niels Diffrient, Alvin R. Tilley and Joan C. Bardagjy, authors. Humanscale 1/2/3 : A Portfolio of Information. Wheelchair users. Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, 1974, diagram 3a. CCA Collection. TA166.D5 1974 © Henry Dreyfuss Associates
Lynne Cohen. Left: Classroom in a Mortuary School. Right: Office Environment. 1986 Gelatin silver print, 54.3 x 43.3 cm and 38.1 x 48.1 cm. CCA Collection. PH1986:0930 and PH1986:0934 © Lynne Cohen
R&Sie(n) (François Roche, Stéphanie Lavaux, Jean Navarro), architects. Dustyrelief F/B-mu, Bangkok, Thailand, 2002 Wood, painting, metal, metallic fibres, dust and resin, 11.5 cm h x 24 x 24 cm. François Lauginie, photographer. Collection FRAC Centre, Orléans
Introduction by the curators
Co-curators Giovanna Borasi and Mirko Zardini present the exhibition.
Presentation by OFFICE
Kersten Geers and David van Severen of OFFICE on the exhibition design
Presentation by Jonathan Hares
Jonathan Hares presents the graphic design
Presentation by Andy Byers
Andy Byers talks about his paper animals
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