Pressing Matters
Modest Common
505 West Pico Boulevard
Los Angeles
Through June 4
Paper architecture—that is, speculative architectural work designed to exist in two-dimensional media—has a history that stacks on top of itself. Young architects in the 1960s, tired of hearing the swan song of Late Modernism, drew up Suitloons and New Babylon in line with the sharp countercultural swing of the decade. Short on job opportunities amid global financial, political and energy crises, many architects of the 1970s turned to paper as a venue for criticizing the culture of late capitalism. And those of the 1980s and 90s—still short on jobs—went back to the drawing board to assert architecture’s autonomy
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