In his second book exploring the urban vernacular of Queens, Rafael Herrin-Ferri shifts his focus to the green spaces that accompany the houses and small multi-family buildings of the “World’s Borough.” As varied and colorful as the façades featured in All the Queens Houses, these spaces introduce an organic, botanical element to the streetscape. Semi-formal lawns […]
Lush lawns, blue swimming pools, double garages: Suburbia delves into the (visual) worlds of American suburbia—politics, architecture, pop culture and advertising have shaped desires and realities. The exhibition highlights these tensions and simultaneously illustrates the boom in single-family homes in Germany after 1945 with home stories from the magazine Schöner Wohnen. Visitors can flip through […]
The ocean has always defined its dimension in opposition to land. Ports—its points of human landing—constitute sites of connection with a world that is at once traversed and still largely unexplored: the planet’s largest arena, where myth and politics converge alongside flows of goods, minerals, and people. For this reason, the ocean and its ports […]