Creation from Catastrophe : How Architecture Rebuilds Communities

27 Jan-24 Apr 2016

Overview

Destruction and devastation present unique opportunities to radically rethink our environment. ‘Creation from Catastrophe – How architecture rebuilds communities’, sponsored by Ruskin Air Management, explores the varying ways that cities and communities have been re-imagined in the aftermath of natural or man-made disasters. From masterplans to reconfigure London after the Great Fire of 1666 to contemporary responses to earthquakes and tsunamis, Creation from Catastrophe poses questions about the fragility of architecture, our relationship to nature, and the power of architects to instigate change. Through an eclectic array of drawings, photographs, film, books and models, the exhibition asks whether we are facing a paradigm shift in the way that cities and communities recover from destruction.