Detail View: Archivision Base to Module 13: 15th Venice Architecture Biennale (2016): US Pavilion
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Collection:
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Archivision Base to Module 13
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Preferred Title:
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15th Venice Architecture Biennale (2016): US Pavilion
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Alternate Title:
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Twelve Proposals to Regenerate Detroit
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Image View:
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BairBalliet, The Next Port of Call, 2016. Dock, port of entry, customs checkpoint, and waterfront entertainment venues. Speculative project for Detroit’s riverfront United States Post Office.
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Creator:
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Cynthia C. Davidson (American exhibition curator, born 1952); Mónica Ponce de León (American exhibition curator, born ca. 1966)
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Location:
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exhibition: Venice, Veneto, Italy
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Location Note:
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Giardini della Biennale, United States Pavilion
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GPS:
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+45.429167+12.356944
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Date:
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2015-2016 (creation)
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Cultural Context:
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American
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Style Period:
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Twenty-first century
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Work Type 1:
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traveling exhibition
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Work Type 2:
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model (representation)
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Classification:
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Architecture and City Planning
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Material:
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paper; plastic; wood; glass; VR headsets
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Technique:
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construction (assembling)
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Subjects:
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architecture; contemporary (1960 to present); models (representations); urban renewal
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Description:
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Exhibition in the US Pavilion, entitled The Architectural Imagination and curated by Cynthia Davidson and Mónica Ponce de León, featured a large array of drawings, models, videos, and interactive exhibits (including VR headsets) presenting the results of an open call to advance architectural solutions for four semi-abandoned industrial areas in Detroit. The selected sites, somehow symbolic of both the decline and the potential of regeneration, are those of Dequindre Cut, of an abandoned light industrial building in the Mexicantown area; of a former U.S. Postal Service sorting facility on the city’s riverfront, and of the disused Packard Automotive Plant. Among the over 250 designs submitted, the curators selected the projects by twelve US-based teams. The competition and exhibition was organized by the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. After being shown in Venice, the exhibit returned to Detroit, where it was shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. (Source: Architects Newspaper; http://www.archpaper.com/)
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Image Description:
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United States Post Office: Team; BairBalliet, Chicago and Columbus, OH; Present Future, Houston; Preston Scott Cohen Inc., Cambridge, MA.
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Collection:
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Archivision Addition Module Twelve
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Identifier:
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1A2-I-VE-VB16-US-D08
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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