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Re-Imagining the White House
By Avishay Artsy on Sunday, September 21, 2008.
Architects and designers were presented this past January with a delightful challenge: what would the residence of the most powerful individual in the world, the White House in Washington, D.C., look like if it were designed today?
The White House Redux competition (as reported on this summer by NPR's now-discontinued Bryant Park Project) became one of the most talked-about architecture competitions this year, and will soon be a book.
The Storefront for Art and Architecture and Control Group launched the competition, which netted almost 500 submissions from 42 countries around the world.
White House Redux: The Book documents the competition, provides an overview of the results, and includes essays by Joseph Grima (Storefront for Art and Architecture) and Geoff Manaugh (BLDGBLOG and Dwell Magazine), a history of the existing White House and 123 selected projects as well as the four winning submissions.
The book ships on October 2, and will be printed in a limited edition of 500 copies.
(Photo by Grufnik)
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This idea was too intriguing for me not to get sucked into the vortex of book ordering. But I must confess that, after checking the Storefront's web site for the winning entries, and to the extent they are legible in their minuscule form there, the jurors went for the ones that are suffused with architecture grad school babble. Maybe it was never really about seriously re-thinking what a presidential residence could be.