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Potential Architecture
How an epic database could help generate new ideas from old designs
The Architecture Foundation, London, United Kingdom
From: 8 October 2010
Until: 23 October 2010
International Collection of Potential Architecture: Showcase
Opening hours:
Tuesday - Saturday:
12.00 - 6.00pm
Theoretical studies, competition entries, cancelled projects: thousands of hours are spent on a future never to be. But, if examining the unbuilt, can one find other ideas and values?
That is the main premise behind the International Collection of Potential Architecture, a comprehensive - and, eventually, global - online database devoted to the unrealised projects 'hidden and forgotten in the archives or servers of offices and architecture schools'.
Initiated by Oslo-based art and architecture organisation 0047, the database already features a tantalising array of unbuilt work (some of which is currently on show at London's Architecture Foundation), with new projects added every day.
Follow the link to see the latest projects added to the Collection
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