Environment-Trouble
In Celebration of the 60th Anniversary of Banham’s “Environment Bubble”
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https://doi.org/10.14195/1647–8681_16_6Abstract
“Environment-Trouble" is a satirical commentary on "A Home is not a House," a 1965 article authored by Reyner Banham and François Dallegret that included a now famous cross section through an imagined, self-contained, "Environment-Bubble." In 2024, a group of five friends decided to build the Banham bubble on the rocky shores of Capri to celebrate the sixtieth anniversary of the publication. Pretty soon, of course, the men ran into all sorts of trouble, thus the title of the piece: "Environment-Trouble." The article describes what the Office of Uncertainty Research learned when its members went to Capri to interview the men, in particular about the material contingencies, social forces and planetary and cosmic realities that derail even the best-laid plans. "Environment-Trouble" was on view at the Palazzo Diedo, May 8 to November 23, 2025 as part of an exhibit called 'Core Samples', curated by Ana Miljacki, and was part of the Venice Architecture Biennale (2025).
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