Block
City/ The Past, Present and Future of Mass housing
The
exhibition is based on a fifteen-year research of Dutch architect
Bart Goldhoorn into the possibilities of housing development in the
future. His concept of the „Block City“ is a combination of
analysed housing complexes of the 1960s and the 1970s as well as the
contextual, individual, but also very expensive „Designer City“.
Goldhoorn had the opportunity to test this concept in a new town for
40 000 inhabitants south of Moscow. The outcome of his endeavour
are four master plans and 150 models of housing blocks created by
architects from around the world which are part of a touring
exhibition from 2011.