Competing Utopias is a design collision that should never happen. But somehow, in Los Angeles, in 2014, twenty-five years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, it will.
This installation is a ‘mash-up’ in the most provocative sense of that word. Its force comes from the collision of two design cultures that have been kept apart but have been visually connected in ways yet unexamined. What's proposed is an experimental installation that presents Cold War modern design from East and West in one context.
Competing Utopias is organized by two Los Angeles institutions: the Neutra VDL Studio and Residences and the Wende Museum and Archive of the Cold War, each a different type of museum. The Neutra House is an iconic Los Angeles mid-century modern house museum, designed by Austrian born American architect Richard Neutra. The Wende Museum is the largest archive of Cold War artifacts in the world. Both ‘institutions’ originated in German speaking Europe, both subsequently landed in Los Angeles. Their collections embody two forks of a Cold War history.
Title
Competing Utopias: An Experimental Installation of Cold War Modern Design from East and West in One ContextWebsite
From
July 11, 2014 04:14 PMUntil
September 14, 2014 04:14 PMVenue
Neutra VDL Research HouseAddress
2300 Silver Lake Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90039, USA