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Think Global, Build Social! - Architectures for a Better World
The Architekturzentrum Wien presents in its new exhibition examples of social and sustainable architectur. The exhibition “Think Global. Build Social! Architectures for a Better World” has been produced in cooperation with the Deutsche Architekturmuseum.
More and more people live in cities. In Latin America and the industrialized world more than 70 percent of the population lives in urban areas, with an increasing number of them living in slums, without affordable access to urbanism and architecture.
Curator Andres Lepik, director of the architecture museum in Munich, shows 22 examples of a socially committed architecture trying to improve the quality of life for underprivileged segments of the population in various regions of the world, with little financial but great creative effort.
For the exhibition, architects and their projects were chosen who committed in the long term and who involved local residents in the planning, the common denominator being the improvement of the quality of life for local people as a focus.
Among the examples there are schools, public spaces or dwellings – they often were built in a close cooperation with the future occupants and involving local building traditions. There are also interesting projects with Austrian involvement, like the Viennese association s2arch: Founded in 2004 by Christoph Chorherr, this NGO has implemented more than 40 social projects in South Africa. The architecture office gaupenraub +/- developed a number of projects for the homeless.
The goal of the projects by international architects shown in the exhibition is a connection between ethical, social and aesthetic criteria. The show is divided in five thematic blocks: culture, material, participation, dwelling and design. An exhibition-portrait by CastYourArt. | castyourart.com (text written by Cem Angeli)

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