Marjetica Potrc Urgent Architecture

Slovenian artist Marjetica Potrc discovers beauty in the unplanned urban landscapes of shantytowns, trailer parks, and barrios. In her installations in various art institutions across the globe, she sends instructions to the musum staff on how to build her installations--often inspired by a type of shelter found halfway across the world--out of local materials. Here she instructs/constructs a massive installation of housing units based on observations made of temporary shelters and gated communities in Caracas, the West Bank, and West Palm Beach. Urgent ArchitectureIncludes a DVD of an interview with the artist.Potrc, Marjetica is the author of 'Marjetica Potrc Urgent Architecture', published 2004 under ISBN 9780967648095 and ISBN 0967648092.