'The Urban Tendency' in partnership with P3, University of Westminster, LDN, 9 Jul to 9 Aug

Posted on July 10, 2008 at 12:39 PM.

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Exhibition Title: 'The Urban Tendency' Presented in partnership with P3, University of Westminster

Artist Name: Carla Arocha & Stéphane Schraenen, de Artoonisten, Peter Barber Architects, BDP, Jo van den Berghe, Boris van Berkum, Luuk Bode, Dag Boutsen, F.A.T., Jasmina Fekovic, Wouter Feyaerts, Florian Göttke, Hofman Dujardin Architects, Wouter van der Hallen, Pa
Dates: 9 July to 9 August 2008. Private View: Tuesday, 8 July 2008 at P3, 18:00 to 21:00, hosted by The Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the United Kingdom and the Flemish Representation in the United Kingdom.
Website: http://www.lfa2008.org/index.php

Exhibition Description:

The curator Hans Ibelings' 'Horror Vacuii' takes the project for the Netherlands Architecture Institute, about the reemergence of compact urban environments in the Netherlands, and extends its discussion to other locales and practices.

The exhibition examines how architecture, art and design attest to a trend away from suburban sprawl, starting in the mid-1990s, back towards compact urban environments. Since then our visual culture speaks not only of the practical realities of compact urban living, but of wanting the urban environment.

Artists, however, are ambivalent and critical of this phenomena and provide a counterbalance to these Utopian visions of the contemporary city environment.

The exhibition sets up the development of an intuitive dialogue between current practices, locations and visions of urban living, via Modernism and industrialization, all the way back to notions of the city as a state (of being) arising in medieval Netherlandish culture.

'The Urban Tendency' is part of the British Council's 'Embassies Project' for the London Festival of Architecture 2008.

It is curated in London by Ken Pratt.

Description:

PASCAL ROUSSON - 'The Museum of the Dispossessed', courtesy of Vegas Gallery, London

Full Contact Details:

Tuesday to Saturday, 12:00 to 18:00.
P3, University of Westminster, 35 Marylebone Road, London, NW1 5LS