Off White City; Fractures of Crisis

The project explores the architectural exhibition as a significant space for disciplinary articulation and as a practical tool for kickstarting planning in real life. Through the examination of two 1980’s Tel Avivian exhibitions – “White City” and “Architecture in the Basement” - we seek to understand Tel Aviv-Jaffa today as a post-modern project of reaction to the 'Lost Decade.' In response to these, we offer two exhibitions of our own: The first revisits the space of the White City 40 years later, and the other is situated on the fringes of the city – in the fractures of the crisis that were not embraced by the mainstream architectural imagination. The second exhibition sets out to imagine the city's borderline as a realm where speculation can be reclaimed from the crisis economy for a local, momentary, and fragmentary perspective. Contrary to the standard tools of urban planning, we believe that the architectural institution of the exhibition has the capacity to offer this type of imagination