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“The past decade has seen a greater emergence of green roofs and vertical gardens created by artists, designers, architects and urban gardeners to combat the lack of flora in the city. Buildings around the world—from the Musée du Quai Branly in Paris, to the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco—have embraced green walls or roofs for all their economical, environmental, and aesthetic values. Vertical farms and gardens are also being envisioned as new ways to feed local and organic foods to city dwellers. Largely based on the principles of hydro-ponics, vertical gardens are mostly self-sustaining because they capture large amounts of natural sunlight and water, and use wind as an energy source. In a country where cities are suffocated by high rises, cement and industrial materials, where can green space exist? As this exhibition demonstrates, one possible answer is ‘up.’”
The program includes a veritable who's who (as well as a who's that or two?) in terms of Vertical Greening, featuring many folks who's work has graced the pages of this blog, including Patrick Blanc, Flora Grubb, Emilio Ambasz, Dickson Despommier, James Wines, and many more. Many of these projects may have come from last year's Exit Art exhibit on vertical gardens - and it includes a pair of installations to go along with the documentation of this wide range of projects including urban farming and green roofs to round out the vegitectural du jour.
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