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[email protected] IMAGES AVAILABLE FOR PUBLICATION Center for Architecture opens two exhibitions on Middle Eastern architecture and engineering City of Mirages: Baghdad, 1952-1982, and CHANGE: Architecture and Engineering in the Middle East, 2000-Present Press are invited to a press preview with curators Hassan Radoine and Pedro Azara from 10am- 12pm on Wednesday, February 22 at the Center for Architecture, 536 LaGuardia Place, NYC 10012. To RSVP, or for press images, please contact Nicole Friedman at 212-358-6126 or
[email protected] NEW YORK CITY, February 8, 2012 – The Center for Architecture announces the opening of two concurrent exhibitions on architecture in the Middle East. City of Mirages: Baghdad, 1952-1982, in its US debut, presents built and unbuilt work by 11 architects, including Alvar Aalto, Le Corbusier, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Venturi, Rauch and Scott Brown. CHANGE: Architecture and Engineering in the Middle East, 2000-Present surveys 123 contemporary works in 20 countries and territories. Taken together, the two shows demonstrate the diversity of approaches to design in the Middle East and examine the forces of modernization and colonialism shaping the region’s cities. “These two exhibitions further the Center for Architecture’s commitment to global dialogue,” said Joseph J. Aliotta, AIA, LEED AP, President of AIANY. “In the past two years, the Center’s exhibitions have grappled with recent international developments in the built environment, such as the rapid growth of Chinese cities and informal urban strategies in India. CHANGE and City of Mirages document and present the ongoing transformations of cities around the world.” The exhibitions will both open at the Center on February 22, 2012, with a reception from 6:00- 9:00pm; the opening is free to the public.