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Mars Pants
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New Architects

Promoting emerging architects and designers is a key part of The Architecture Foundation’s activities. The third ‘Public Views’ exhibitions gave an excellent opportunity for up and coming architects to exhibit their work. The theme behind Public Views 3 was inspiration and influences.

Mars Pants was the first exhibition in the third series to be held at the AF's gallery in Bury Street, London, from 30 November 2000 to 14 January 2001. Mars Pants was a collaborative exhibition between Katja Hock (photographer), Neil Leach (cultural theorist) and Team S - Nicola Worton & Oliver Froome-Lewis (architects).The exhibition juxtaposed photographs of "the city as it is" with design projects for "the city as it could be" with visions of how we could be living, working, travelling and relaxing in the future.
Katja Hock's images offer a telling account of contemporary urban existence, exploring the covert histories of mundane objects, hinting at humour and signals of habitation struggling to emerge from an otherwise bleak city. Neil Leach, author and editor of several books including ‘Millennium Culture’ and ‘The Anaesthetics of Architecture’, describes the subtle shifts and developments in contemporary British culture - the conditions from which the Mars Pants vision is emerging. Nicola Worton and Oliver Froome-Lewis, prize winners in the Europan 5 (Finland) and RIBA Living Sites, present designs for the future-present, imagining and narrating the lives of potential inhabitants.

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