1. Apartment Block in Vienna
The modern project of architecture relied on the material erasure of history from cities in order to enact its radical change. From the lost Paris of the Plan Voisin to American Urban Renewal to Marshall Plan Japan, modernism’s ghosts covered the earth. This program of demolition has transformed from serving the power of the Keynesian midcentury state to the tool of the developers of the neoliberal city. Gentrification has taken on the mantle of destruction from centralized planning as neighborhoods and histories are excavated from cities in order to present a clean image of capitalist power.
This project is built from the refuse of these excavated histories. Operating as a shadow architecture to the developers’ city, the building is a collected mass of architectural debris, filling the courtyards of Vienna’s historical blocks. The dark space of the pile stands against the hyper-clean image of the solarized modernist and capitalist cities, offering a respite from the literal heat and visual vacuity of the contemporary city. The space within the pile resists commodification through its piled up immeasurability and its reliance on a collectivized construction.
H.I. Feldman Award Nominated Project.
First Drawing shown in “Working Remotely” at the A83 Gallery in Soho, New York.
This project is built from the refuse of these excavated histories. Operating as a shadow architecture to the developers’ city, the building is a collected mass of architectural debris, filling the courtyards of Vienna’s historical blocks. The dark space of the pile stands against the hyper-clean image of the solarized modernist and capitalist cities, offering a respite from the literal heat and visual vacuity of the contemporary city. The space within the pile resists commodification through its piled up immeasurability and its reliance on a collectivized construction.
H.I. Feldman Award Nominated Project.
First Drawing shown in “Working Remotely” at the A83 Gallery in Soho, New York.
