Architect, educator and founding member of Archigram, David Greene has been hugely influential for generations of architects and designers through his iconic projects from the 1960s, such as Living Pod and LogPlug, and his ongoing inquisitive, oppositional approach to teaching. The exhibition is representative of Greene's ‘exploratory laboratory' teaching studios and is conceived as part of an evolving workshop. It centres around a dialogue between original material and a series of projects commissioned by David Greene and Samantha Hardingham, the curators of the exhibition. These new commissions revisit four of Greene's original projects, reviewing their context in relation to contemporary construction and digital techniques. The work is presented in the form of three tableaux and a short film.
Theodore Spyropoulos, AA DRL co-director and co-founder of Minimaforms, has been working to evolve the High-rise Pod project (1965), exploring the possibilities of a large assembly of living pods. For his part he incorporates Living Pod (original model courtesy of FRAC Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain, Orléans, France), remakes part of Greene's original (all but destroyed) High-rise Pod model and develops a new model: a metamorphosis of the original living pod/pod tower through a process that privileges evolutionary tactics through behavioral response as a stimulus for collective engagement. Pods evolve tails and communities form through animalistic tendencies. Units act as mirrors, observing, recording and broadcasting the occupational patterns as a form of emotive conditioning. The aim is to develop models that engage man through feedback and circular activity and evolve new concepts of living through dynamic organization and social experimentation - in the spirit of Buckminster Fuller who said, ‘There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly'.
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