Tuesday, August 14, 2012

America takes guerilla-style DIY to Venice's architecture biennale


For their presentation in the American pavilion at this year's International Venice Architecture Biennale, the Institute of Urban Design has created Spontaneous Interventions : Design Actions for the Common Good, a survey of a kind of DIY urbanism ranging from urban farms to guerilla bicycle lanes, temporary architecture to poster campaigns, urban navigation apps to crowd-sourced city planning. You can read an ARTINFO interview with curator Cathy Lang Ho here.