The Other Architect

Exhibition, Main galleries, 28 October 2015 to 10 April 2016

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The Other Architect. Installation view, 2015

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For as long as architecture has been reduced to a service to society or an “industry” whose ultimate goal is only to build, there have been others who imagine it instead as a field of intellectual research: energetic, critical, and radical.

From a set of varied approaches drawn from many people, places, and times, the other architect emerges: searching for different operating models, aiming for collaborative strategies, introducing strange concepts, and experimenting with new kinds of tools. The result is an ample array of possibilities: Urban Innovations Group, ILAUD (International Laboratory of Architecture and Urban Design), AMO, IAUS (Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies), CUP (Center for Urban Pedagogy), ARAU (Atelier de recherche et d’action urbaines), Architects’ Revolutionary Council, Corridart, Architectural Detective Agency, Lightweight Enclosures Unit, Take Part Workshop, Kommunen in der Neuen Welt, AD/AA/Polyark, Design-A-Thon, Architecture Machine Group, Forensic Architecture, Multiplicity, Art Net, Global Tools, CIRCO, Pidgeon Audio Visual, Delos Symposion, and Anyone Corporation.

Curator: Giovanna Borasi, CCA
Curatorial team: Greg Barton, Lev Bratishenko, Alice Haddad, and Rebecca Taylor, CCA
Exhibition design: MOS Architects, New York
Graphic design: COCCU/Christian Lange, Munich

Selected objects

Shimbo Minami, an illustrator, cartoonist, and member of ROJO, at work documenting the street, ca. 1985. Photograph by Tetsuo Matsuda

Architecture Machine Group. Page from the presentation booklet of the URBAN 2 computer-aided design system, 1968

Institute of Architecture and Urban Studies (IAUS). An annotated outline of various ways to analyze a street, 18 September 1970. Institute of Architecture and Urban Studies fonds, CCA. ARCH272390:001

Cedric Price. Technology Is the Answer But What Was the Question? Audio Visual Kit (London: Pidgeon Audio Visual, 1979)

Ekistics: Reviews on the Problems and Science of Human Settlements, vol. 24, no. 143 (October 1967).

Andrea Meller, Damon Rich, Rosten Woo & the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP). Image from “PHTV : What’s Up With Public Housing?”, a video produced by CUP 2004. On view in _The Other Architect_.

Andrea Meller, Damon Rich, Rosten Woo & the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP). Still from “PHTV : What’s Up With Public Housing?,” a video produced by CUP 2004. On view in The Other Architect.

Volunteers answering calls during an episode of the Watkins Glen Tomorrow Design-A-Thon. 1980

Charles Moore drafting live during a television broadcast of Roanoke Design ‘79, while host Ted Powers and Floyd address the camera. 1979

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Lawrence Halprin and two associates before their helicopter flight for the Take Part workshop in Everett, 1971

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