Why Architects Need to Get Dirty to Save the World

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This article was originally published on Metropolis Magazine as "Why Architects Need to Get Dirty to Save the World."

Of all the terrarium-like experiments included in Lydia Kallipoliti’s The Architecture of Closed Worlds: Or, What Is the Power of Shit? (Lars Müller/Storefront for Art and Architecture), Biosphere 2 is the most infamous. A steel-and-glass structure baking in the Arizona desert, it represents the hope and hubris of re-creating Earth on Earth. The project was launched by an alternative living group with a taste for theater, and tanked by disastrous management by Steve Bannon (yes, him). As such, it illustrates the risky arc that courses through Kallipoliti’s 300-page volume—visions of utopia bending toward ultimate failure.

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Cite: Mimi Zeiger. "Why Architects Need to Get Dirty to Save the World" 22 Oct 2018. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/904329/why-architects-need-to-get-dirty-to-save-the-world> ISSN 0719-8884

Courtesy of the Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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