Earlier today in Shenzhen the
6th Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture (UABB) opened its doors to public. Under the overall theme Re-Living the City, curators Alfredo Brillembourg and Hubert Klumpner of Urban Think Tank headed up the Radical Urbanism exhibit in the main venue. Brillembourg and Klumpner invited the exhibition participants to show how we can learn from ad-hoc and bottom-up initiatives for alternative urban solutions. In the following essay - originally printed in the UABB 2015 catalogue - the curators call for us to rethink how we can operate within the city, learn from its emerging intelligence and shap[e] its outcomes to radical and tactical ends.
YAP Korea 2014: Shinseon Play / Moon Ji Bang. Image Courtesy of MoMA
The Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1 has announced a partnership with the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) in Seoul that has expanded the international Young Architects Program (YAP) to South Korea. Just as YAP presents opportunities for emerging architects to design and build temporary installations in New York, Chile, Rome and Istanbul, YAP Korea will offer the MMCA’s outdoor Museum Plaza as the summer installation site.
Already, a winner has been chosen from 26 submissions to serve as the inaugural YAPKorea installation. With completion planned for July 8, winning team