The After the flood exhibition at the Architecture and Design Museum in Los Angeles was partly organised by the Make it Right project and the German based architecture firm Graft. After the flood exposed the problem of efficient housing response after natural catastrophes. The exhibition focused on the housing designed for the competition organised by Architectural Record and Tulane University.
This was a rather small exhibition but the subject is very close to my heart. The notion of emergency architecture in response to disaster situation is a very compelling subject. This exhibition showed through the different competition entries from all over the world, a few videos and installations that this problem was affecting everyone around the globe, not just americans.
The solidarity within these proposals stroke me and made me conscious that presenting such subjects to the public was an important task, not just a curatorial exercise but a socio-political statement.
