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Deborah Husted Koshinsky
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Architecture and Environmental Design Library
Arizona State University

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The College of Architecture and Environmental Design at Arizona State University  

 is pleased to announce  the following exhibition and lectures:

exhibition

ciudad abierta, ritoque, chile

photographs by anthony hamboussi

september 25 to october 14, 2003

caed gallery of design

south architecture building

arizona state university

tempe, arizona

a traveling exhibition sponsored by storefront for art and architecture, with the generous support of the w.p.carey foundation and susan & peter kessler.

in the 1950s, a group of artists, architects, poets, and engineers from the faculty of the school of architecture at the universidad católica de chile in valparaiso, conceived a city with no master plan, no imposed ordering devices, and no hierarchical networks of infrastructure. they called this project ciudad abierta (open city). envisioned as a laboratory, those that since reside and work there, permanently or temporarily, have set in motion a new, alternative community.

ciudad abierta is one of the most radical experiments in latin america that has merged architectural pedagogy, urban development and landscape. the site unfolds over the immense expanse of dunes, ravines and plateaus on 700 acres facing the pacific ocean, where the students practice their own learning guided experiences, through formal and material experimental language emerged from poetic, purely aesthetic derives and unique developing of theoretical means, as well as craftsmanship and interdisciplinary collaboration, formulating an alternative educational model. it is a significant product of the grandeur and inordinacy of the american landscape and a contribution to the south american architectural identity, expressive of its mysterious relation with the spiritual dimension of nature.

the photographs by anthony hamboussi focus on that dialog between the built and the natural environment it occupies and transforms. the exhibition contains 27 color photographs selected from an on-going documentation project that the photographer has been engaged in for the past two year (www.hamboussi.com). anthony hamboussi (born. brooklyn, 1969) is a new york-based photographer. his work has been exhibited both in the usa and abroad. he is the recipient of 2003 independent project grant from the new york state council on the arts, for a photographic study of new york city's newtown creek. other projects include the documentation of the evolving industrial and urban landscape in new york city and detroit. his work has appeared in the new york times magazine, wired, big, metropolis, soma, american photo and interior design, among other publications.

opening lectures

ann pendleton-jullian (mit prof.), alejandro aravena (chile-gsd prof.)

friday september 26,

aed 60

6:30 pm.

north architecture building, reception to follow

ann pendleton-jullian, associate head of the department of architecture, massachusetts institute of technology (mit), cambridge, author of a critical research on ciudad abierta: the road that is not a road: the open city, ritoque, chile (mit press, 1996).

alejandro aravena, professor universidad católica de chile, santiago, is currently visiting adjunct professor of architecture at harvard university, cambridge. aravena is also a young talented practicing architect, his presentation will include his recent built projects for the chile university in santiago.

College of Architecture  and Environmental Design

School of Architecture 

Arizona State University 

PO Box 871605

Tempe, AZ 85287-1605

With the support of

ASU Center for Latin

American Studies

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