Letters to the Mayor
Wednesday April 30, 2014
Letters to the Mayor. Storefront for Art and Architecture.
Letters to the Mayor is an itinerant exhibition that displays letters written by architects to their city mayors. The project has been presented in Athens, Bogota, Buenos Aires, Lisbon, Madrid, Mariupol, Mexico, New York, Panama City, Sao Paulo, Taipei, and Taichung.
Each edition of Letters to the Mayor invites one hundred local and global architects to deliver their thoughts directly to the desks of elected officials, and simultaneously into the public consciousness.
Taking the form of an exhibition and a series of public debates between architects, the mayor, and citizens at large, Letters to the Mayor is a forum for the discussion of the future of cities and the built environment. The project provides a transversal understanding of relevant issues within local contexts, and shared concerns throughout cities around the world.
Editions include:
New York — Storefront for Art and Architecture / April 30 – May 24, 2014
Panama City, Panama — JUNTA Espacio de Arquitectura / March 17 – April 27, 2015
Mariupol, Ukraine — Izolyatsia / October 23 – November 13, 2015
Bogotá, Colombia — CAMPO Cultural Center / Oct 24 – Dec 19, 2015
Taipei, Taiwan — URS 127 / Jan 8 – 31, 2016
Athens, Greece — METAMATIC: TAF / February 25 – March 6, 2016
Mexico City, Mexico — Arquine / March 5 – April 4, 2016
Buenos Aires, Argentina — Monoespacios / March 19 – May 21, 2016
Taichung, Taiwan — MOT Lab / March 25 – April 24, 2016
São Paulo, Brazil — Pivo / July 30 – August 27, 2016
Madrid, Spain — COAM – / Sept 29 – Oct 9, 2016
Lisbon, Portugal — Lisbon Architecture Triennale / October 6 – November 25, 2016
Aarhus, Denmark — Aarhus School of Architecture / August 24 – September 15, 2017
Oslo, Norway — Oslo Architecture Triennale / September 26 – October 22, 2017
Toronto, Canada — Don Valley Parkway / September 28 – October 28, 2017
Valparaiso, Chile — XX Chilean Architecture and Urbanism Biennial / October 26 – October 31, 2017
Nashville, United States—Nashville Civic Design Center / November 30, 2017 – February 3, 2018
Rotterdam, Netherlands — Het Nieuwe Instituut / January 12 – February 11, 2018
Prague, Czech Republic — Norma Space / April 23 – May 30, 2018
Lima, Peru — Museo de la Nación / October 12 – November 5, 2018
Barcelona, Spain — Architects’ Association of Catalonia / March 28 – May 5, 2019
Berlin, Germany — Deutsches Architektur Zentrum (DAZ) / November 15, 2019 – February 2, 2020
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PROJECT TEAM
Curator: Eva Franch i Gilabert
Associate Curator: Carlos Mínguez Carrasco
Communications: Jinny Khanduja
Curatorial Fellow: Iara Pimenta
Graphic Design: Project Projects
Support team: Estefanía Acosta, Mariam Azim, Asia Bazdyrieva, Lafina Eptaminitaki, Justine Frances Flora, Carolina Florez, Juan Carlos Javier, Bon Hae Koo, Katerina Kulanova, Amela Parcic, Luca Smith Senise, Ann Vaikla, Connie Wang
Local Curators
Bruno de Almeida, Fernando Falcon, Moneo Brock, Enorme Studio, CAMPO (Carlos Balen, Felipe Guerra, Alejandro Piñol, Germán Ramírez, Juliana Sánchez and Alejandra Sarria), Andrea Griborio (Arquine), Martin Huberman (Monoambiente), Ivo Poças Martins, David Tseng, Johann Wolfschoon (JUNTA Espacio de Arquitectura), METASITU (Eduardo Cassina, Liva Dudareva), Dongwoo Yim, Calvin Chua, Tron Meyer, Oslo Architecture Triennale, Partisans, Pola Mora, Fuller Hanan and Daniel Toner (Nashville Civic Design Center), Marten Kuijpers, Marina Otero, Michiel Raats, Kateřina Kulanová, Jana Moravcová, Ernesto Apolaya Canales, Claudio Cuneo Raffo, Jorge Sánchez Herrera, Ricardo Devesa, Xavier González, Núria Moliner, DAZ
Design Teams
3 pounds Co. Ltd, Ana Arana and Enrique Ventosa, Grupo Bondi (Eugenio Gómez Llambi, Iván López Prystajko), Branco Papel de Parede, Lucas Simões, Piotr Chizinski, Pablo Gómez Uribe, Pedro Hernández, Paulo Licona, Oscar Melgar, Iphigenia Papamikroulea, Nameless Architecture, R2, The Rock Instrument Bureau, Gonzalo del Val, Marina Samokhina, George Vousta, César Mendoza, Tron Meyer, Arna Mačkić & Lorien Beijarts, Rudy Guedj, Jan Boháč, Sandra Nakamura, Arturo Higa, L’estoc, Marga Gibert, something fantastic
Partnering Organizations
Arquine, CAMPO Cultural Center, COAM, IZOLYATSIA, JUNTA Espacio de Arquitectura, Jut Foundation for the Arts and Architecture, Lisbon Architecture Triennale, metamatic:taf, Monoambiente, MOT Lab Taichung, Pivô Arte e Pesquisa, Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, Design og arkitektur Norge, Oslo Architecture Triennale, Partisans, XX Chilean Architecture and Urbanism Biennial, Nashville Civic Center, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Norma Space, Patronato Cultural del Peru, Architects’ Association of Catalonia (COAC), urbanNext, DAZ
Future Letters
Further iterations of the project also include Letters to the Developer and Letters to the Minister. To propose an edition in your city, please contact info@storefrontnews.org
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SUPPORT
Letters to the Mayor is part of Storefront for Art and Architecture’s initiative Architecture Conflicts, a project with the purpose of identifying pressing issues, ongoing conflicts, and design solutions in relation to the most important urban problems today. Architecture Conflicts is supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts.
