POWER -
Producing the Contemporary City

24 May - 2 September 2007
 
Power
Image: Caracas, George Brugmans

With two-thirds of the world's population living in cities by 2050, the twenty-first century will be the urban epoch. How then will the city - the stage where numerous global forces play with and against each other - further develop? And who will bear responsability for its future?

 

POWER stakes out a role for a vigorous architecture by refocusing attention on the city's future.


“Power –whether political, economic, or social – treats urban and architectural form as a means rather than an end in itself. Revealing the ways in which this power is made manifest in built form takes an essential first step for a