Multiple city
dal 2/12/2008 al 28/2/2009
Segnalato da
2/12/2008
Multiple city
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
The project shows current urban developments worldwide as mirrored in central urban concepts of the past 100 years. Their juxtaposition and inter-relationship with leading historical and contemporary ideas illustrate and explain the complex and multi-layered developments of urban planning. The exhibition presents sixteen urbanistic terms, examining their transformation up to the present: from the garden city at the beginning of the 20th century via the city landscape concepts of the early post-war period to today's Urban Landscapes...
The exhibition Multiple City is showing current, world-wide urban
developments as mirrored in central concepts of the city over the past 100
years. By juxtaposing and presenting the inter-relationships of historical
and contemporary ideas on town planning it illustrates and provides insights
into the complex and multi-layered developments in this field.
The spectrum reaches from the historical garden city at the beginning of the
20th century to the concepts of urban landscapes in the early post-war
period and those of today, from the "new towns" of the 1960s to the current
creation of new cities in China and the United Arab Emirates, from the
leading idea of a "mobile city" to the "telepolis" of the digital age and
from the "pleasure city" of the global consumer landscape to the strategy of
branding, the city as a trademark. Urban structures are subject to constant
transformation, with new phenomena emerging that can, at the same time, be
the product of established strategies. The phenomena are heterogeneous;
there is neither a distictive, regognisable form nor a strategy for coping
with the city of today: the MULTIPLE CITY.
Visitors to the exhibition are given the opportunity to explore sixteen
themes and to experience town planning as a stimulating discourse in which
we are all involved. Original plans and models present international
examples to document historical concepts of the city.These are
systematically jutaposed to current changes in urban spaces in a
photographic documentation. An the exhibition and in publications, rounds of
discussios and a series of films, which are shown in collaboration with the
Film Museum of Munich, town planers, architects, artists and scientists will
address issues concerned with the city of today in its multiple forms. The
exhibition is a joint production of the Museum of Architecture and the
Chair of Town and Regional Planning at the Technical University Munich.
Accompanying the exhibition is a catalogue published by Jovis Verlag.
The exhibition and the catalogue are funded by the German Federal Cultural
Foundation.
Image: La Défense, Paris | Frankreich, 2008, © Markus Lanz
Press preview: 03.12.2008, 11
Opening: 03.12.2008, 19
Pinakothek der Moderne
Barer Strasse 40 - Munich