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    Open Lens Gallery: Before and After Utopia

    Open Lens Gallery: Before and After Utopia

    Presented by Gershman Y at Gershman Y

    October 17, 2011


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    More than a decade into the millennium, the world is amidst crisis and challenge in designing, powering and maintaining its urban metropolises. These conditions are illustrated in Matthew Christopher Murray's photographs of an Abandoned America, Michael Christopher Brown's images of a globalized Ordos, China, Joshua Lieberman’s survey of Paolo Soleri’s never-finished, experimental eco community of Arcosanti, in Arizona, and Michael Meysarosh’s exploration of the Laboratory for Visionary Architecture (LAVA)’s design for Masdar City, the world’s first zero-carbon, zero-waste city, being built 17km from downtown Abu Dhabi. Examining these landscapes of decay, sprawl, and hope, our Utopian ambitions to create a better world are contrasted with the reality of cultural evolution, entropy and hubris.


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        Gershman Y

        401 S. Broad Street
        Philadelphia, PA 19147

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        Tickets:

        $23

        Info Phone: events.gershmany.org

      • Dates & Times

        Dates:
        October 17, 2011

        Times:

        8 pm

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