Abstract
A house, Le Corbusier famously wrote, “is a machine for living .” It is also an archive of memories, an ecosystem and architecture at its most intimate. The Art Houses of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the brainchild of collector Evan Mirapaul, are all of these and more. At their most prosaic, the Art Houses are four installations in the city’s Troy Hill district by world-class artists: Thorsten Brinkman (La Hütte Royal); Mark Dion (Mrs. Christopher’s House); Robert Kunsmirowski (Kunzhaus); Lenka Clayton and Phillip Andrew Lewis (Darkhouse Lighthouse). Their presence in this eclectic, working-class neighborhood within an eclectic, post-industrial city engages and expands the discourse in a range of disciplines. These include urban planning, art making and curation, architecture, climate change, re-use, sustainability and more. I am the co-editor in chief of a book on the project and my paper explores these themes.
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Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
KEYWORDS
Housing, Community, Re-use, Urban Planning, Art, Design, Memory Construction
