Los Angeles, CA (February 14, 2012) – The Architecture + Design Museum > Los Angeles (A+D Museum) is pleased to announce the highly anticipated DRY LANDS DESIGN exhibition, on view March 22-April 26, 2012.
DRY LANDS DESIGN will feature work by architects, landscape architects, engineers, and urban designers responding to the challenges of water scarcity in the face of climate change. With a focus on the US West, the exhibition will present a portfolio of adaptive strategies large and small, rural and urban, high tech and low-carbon. Since no single solution will meet the complex needs of the US West, the exhibition will explore a range of approaches for how buildings and parks, houses and streets, industry and agriculture, cities and neighborhoods might be adapted to face a drought-prone future. DRY LANDS DESIGN recognizes water scarcity as an issue of global concern, and challenges the industrialized world to take a leadership position with water-conserving, low-carbon design innovation for its own backyard.
Through compelling and accessible drawings, models, graphics, and film clips, the exhibition will frame the challenges facing 30 million people in the US West, and how those challenges are shared throughout the arid regions of the world. Furthermore, the exhibition and companion public programs will introduce a wide swatch of the public to the possibilities for envisioning a new, adaptive West through design possibilities both practical and poetic. The exhibition speculates on how solutions for the US West might be adapted to meet the urgent needs of dry lands cultures worldwide.
