On the occasion of the national Day of Architecture on 30 September 2011 the Danish Network for Young Planners (Netværk for yngre planlæggere) invites Failed Architecture to Copenhagen. As the fourth in a series of similar events we will discuss criteria (‘benchmarks’) for quality and failure in modernist housing estates in an international East/West perspective.
Failed Architecture shows buildings and urban environments that are malfunctioning, displeasing or have failed to stand the test of time and are currently neglected, abandoned or even vandalized or demolished, because of changing economic, social, political and/or physical circumstances. Initiated by Non-fiction, an Amsterdam-based office for cultural, technological and spatial innovation, we hope to learn lessons from past failures and save some overlooked and underrated urban success stories from oblivion.
Failed Architecture has evolved into a series of live public discussions in Amsterdam, Skopje, Copenhagen, Sofia, and more cities to come.
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