Introduction: Deepa Ramaswamy
Moderator: Felicity Scott
Panelists: Kenneth Frampton, Michael McKinnell, Robert Goodman
This panel will focus on the group’s interest in the city as a space for political action and theoretical speculation. From the very first meetings, we find notes on the politics of architecture, the city and its mobile and expanding population, its racial and economic problems. A study group organized by Jaque Robertson and Giovanni Pasanella paid particular attention to these issues. CASE 4 was focused on Urban Form, and included additional guests on topics such as urban redevelopment and renewal. What was to be the role of the architect in the formation of what appeared as an increasingly unstable urban environment? Some of the debates and experiments within the CASE deliberations would be realized in the 1967 MoMA exhibition “The New City,” which involved several CASE members and evidenced, through a series of speculative projects, their disparate attitudes towards the city.
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