Welcome to The Festival of Xtreme Building
The Festival of Xtreme Building (FXB) was a 4 month project launched on the 8th June until 30th September 2007. FXB occupied a high profile piece of land in Birmingham city centre.We challenged artists and architects to work together and produce experimental structures to be exhibited on this land, free for all to visit (an open air gallery of unusual structures)
In the future through various projects, we hope to increase the level of participation from members of the general public so that they begin to feel that there is a place in their city where they can be creative and express themselves through the built environment.
The Micro Compact Home was habitable for the first time at The Festival of Xtreme Building, Birmingham. It reached 120 million people regionally, nationally and internationally through BBC World News, BBC 24 and various media in June 2007. It has gone from strength to strength, and can be seen shortly in New York! See below for the Press Release:
m-ch crosses the Atlantic
Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York
20 July - 20 October 2008
The award winning micro-compact home (m-ch) is to make its US debut this summer at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, as part of the exhibition Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling.
The micro-compact home is a revolutionary low energy lightweight prefabricated dwelling pioneered by Professor Richard Horden and his fellow teachers and students of the department of Architecture and Product Design, Technical University Munich.
Selected from 400 architectural projects, the m-ch is one of five full-scale prefabricated homes to be displayed in the outdoor space to the west of MoMA's building. The five projects will be shown in the context of a further 58 projects displayed in the sixth-floor International Council of The Museum of Modern Art Gallery, offering the most thorough examination to date of both the historic and contemporary significance of factory-produced architecture from 1833 to today.
Full details and project credits www.microcompacthome.com
Professor Richard Horden, who is based in London and Munich, will be in New York and available for interview at MoMA 12-23 July 2008.
Press enquiries, micro compact home:
Claire Curtice
Publicist, micro compact home
Tel. +44 (0) 20 7613 1442
Mob. + 44 (0)7775 562264
Email: mail@clairecurtice.co.uk
Please peruse the website for the full content of structures/installations, gallery for photos and videos - including the launch night over the summer of 2007.