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CANADA / MONTREAL: IMPERFECT HEALTH - THE MEDICALIZATION OF ARCHITECTURE
until Sunday April 15 2012
Centre Canadien d'Architecture
T : +1 514 939 7026
1920, rue Baile
H3H 2S6 Montreal
Canada
Are architects, urban designers and landscape architects seeking a new moral and political agenda within these concerns?
Health is a focus of contemporary political debate in a moment of historically high anxiety, so Imperfect Health: The Medicalization of Architecture examines the complexity of today’s interrelated and emerging health problems juxtaposed with a variety of proposed architectural and urban solutions.
Pollen, pollution, toxic materials that make up the built environment, globalized industrial food production, reclaimed manufacturing landscapes, unbalanced population demographics, sedentary and indoor lifestyles, and efforts to fight death are becoming imperfect materials for architecture to explore.
Emerging as trends like healthy cities, green buildings, fit cities, global cities, re-use cities, tailored cities, these strategies suggest inspired solutions, but could also address isolated concerns which privilege specific users or conditions. The focus on problems sometimes creates conflicting agendas and disregards the complexity of the urban fabric.