SHIFTS: How Did We Get Here, and What Comes Next? Book Launch + Discussion

Talk

The Architecture Foundation

SHIFTS: How Did We Get Here, and What Comes Next? Book Launch + Discussion

Tue 22 May '12

19:00 - 21:00

The Architecture Foundation
Ground Floor East
London SE1 2TU

In its current form, architecture is still a product of the Industrial Age, as is the idea that underpins it, namely that every change is an improvement. No profession is so imbued with the soap powder advertising optimism of ‘now better than ever’. But buildings also belong to the category of products on which financial capitalism thrived. Just as the millions of unpaid Facebook users ensure that Mark Zuckerberg is on his way to becoming the richest man in the universe, so all the (in this case paid) parties who make buildings, starting with architects, ensure that those who own the buildings become wealthier from it. At least, that’s how things worked until the recession. Because construction alone will not make you seriously rich. - Hans Ibelings, SHIFTS

Nanne de Ru of Powerhouse Company and Hans Ibelings explore the themes of the exhibition in a far-reaching discussion with leading UK based practioners, at the forefront of conversations around global change and new economies.

Are we now seeing the formal end of the Industrial Revolution, the tipping point from which the East takes the reins from the West? What have de-regulation and the changing role of credit done to the world’s built environment? Through exploration of these vital questions, the evening will also launch a new publication resulting from Ibelings and Powerhouse's research.

Doors and drinks 6.30pm. The event will start at 7pm.

Tickets:
£5 Full Price
£3 AF Members
http://www.wegottickets.com/event/166618

Entry:

Paid - ticket required

http://www.architecturefoundation.org.uk
/programme/2012/shifts-the-economic-cris
is-and-its-consequences-for-architecture
/book-launch-and-discussion

Courtesy Powerhouse Company / Christian van der Kooy.

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