Some of the contemporary projects are underwhelming (Koo Jeong-a's stacks of magnets), but on the whole the show succeeds, again and again.
New Urban Housing looks at a selection of some of the most inventive contemporary projects built in countries around the world.
"The Monuments Historiques is open to different and contemporary projects as long as they are coherent".
There are contemporary projects that continue to do this beautifully: Cristina de Middel's Afronaut photograph series reimagines the 1964 Zambian space programme.
The successful use of straw bales as thermal insulation within the external envelope of buildings has been demonstrated by the increasing number of successful contemporary projects around the world.
Over the course of 21/2 field seasons approximately 93,000 reference samples were collected directly, or obtained from other contemporary projects, for the land-cover modeling effort.
The wider significance of the Soviet Affirmative Action experiment is in its relevance to the contemporary projects of multiculturalism.
However, it's not all doom and gloom; the reduced budget has been made available to the New Walk Museum to fund contemporary projects.
Forgoing any Platonic distinction between original and copy, the curators place dozens of fertility goddesses, ancient shekels, mezuzahs, and intricate floral ketubahs from Isfahan alongside similarly iterative contemporary projects.
Yet the visual language these contemporary projects use to address object culture itself differs from, say, naturalistic arrangements of ripe fruits and fine silver by painters in 17th-century Holland.
