Presenting six cities built between the World War II and the present day, the installation sets their extraordinary diversity against the spatial, demographic, and economic formulas that lay behind their development. Displayed through a mix of bold typography, architectural elements, models, and painted canvases, this installation evokes the mix of complexity and control common to modern cities.
Crimson Architectural Historians were inspired by the writings of British American historian Tony Judt, who reflected on the hopeful project of the twentieth century to make education, health, justice, and culture available to the masses, and how this has been replaced by the current political and economic discourse where the “just, the “moral”, or the “good” hardly feature, replaced by process, profit, efficiency, and expediency.
