So|Aware is Going to Prison!
With less than 5 percent of the world’s population the United States has almost a quarter of the world’s prisoners. Many U.S. prisons face the issue of overcrowding. California’s 33 prisons have a capacity of 100,000 prisoners but house nearly double that, with 170,000. To deal with overcrowding, prison classrooms and gymnasiums are filled with bunk beds, diminishing their purpose and lessening the potential for prisoner rehabilitation.
Because this is such an important social issue, beginning next week, So|Aware will be sharing posts that examine the role of architecture in the prison system.
Feel free to submit any suggestions. Thanks!
The Marvelous Floating Stage of the Bregenz Festival In Austria
The festival has become renowned for its unconventional staging of shows. Verdi’ s opera “A Masked Ball” in 1999 featured a giant book being read by a skeleton.
Marcia Mead (1879-1967) was the first woman to graduate from Columbia University’s School of Architecture. She specialized in designing housing, you can read about the innovations she made in a Bridgeport, CT housing development here.
Barnard College offers an architecture award in Marcia’s name to undergraduate students.
Interesting fact: Wright believed in designing structures which were in harmony with humanity and its environment, a philosophy he called organic architecture.
Anna Garforth’s Love Your Street: “Architecture firm Squire & Partners held a street party during the London Festival of Architecture 2010. The event celebrated LFA’s “Love your Street” theme. A special installation made from the trusty old yellow pages directory was created for the event to liven up a rusty wall.” (Words of Garforth, on her website)
(via fuckyeahbookarts)
Source: crosshatchling.co.uk
Inversion House by Dan Havel and Dean Ruck
