Photofusion Gallery | Non Such, Steffi Klenz
Photofusion Gallery, London, UK | Current Exhibition
Concentrating on the ‘model’ town Poundbury, Nonsuch
further develops her exploration of space and artificiality depicted in the recent series A Scape (2005). Positioning Nonsuch within the language of landscape and cityscape photography, the exhibition raises questions around space, control and ownership.
Poundbury functions as the expansion of the county town of Dorchester in Dorset. Built on land owned by the Duchy of Cornwell and planned by the architect Leon Krier, the town owes its conceptual structure to the principles
set out in Prince Charles’ book ‘A Vision of Britain’ (1989).
Leon Krier Webpage
Léon Krier is recognized today as one of the world’s outstanding architects and urbanists. He received the inaugural Richard Driehaus Prize for Classical Architecture in 2003.
“One day I went to a lecture by Leon Krier, the man who designed the English model town of Poundbury for the Prince of Wales. Krier gave a powerful talk about traditional urbanism, and after a couple of weeks of real agony and crisis I realized I couldn’t go on designing these fashionable tall buildings, which were fascinating visually, but didn’t produce any healthy urban effect. They wouldn’t affect society in a positive way. The prospect of instead creating traditional communities where our plans could actually make someone’s daily life better really excited me. Krier introduced me to the idea of looking at people first, and to the power of physical design to change the social life of a community. And so, in a year or so my wife and I left the firm and went off to do something very different.” — Andres Duany.
(Via Amandine)
[tags]architecture, urbanity, documentary[/tags]
