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Photo Exhibition: Creative Concrete Housing for All!

As so much public money is going to war-not-peace, our own Berlin-not-Paris creatives can be the first-not-last to cash-(it)-in -- in true Berlin/Paris/European *Style*....

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This structure was designed by architects who actually wrestled with the challenge of designing a “hopeful-for-the future” kind of concrete place that you can never-ever leave…. (credit: The brilliant photographer is Javier de Paz García, of Madrid.)

BERLIN (June 16, 2025) — US (Social) Democrats — those who are still walking around in the open — assure us that they’re on the job, considering new, bigger-better, crowd-pleasin’ political agendas, to be executed at some yet-undetermined point in the future.

Meanwhile, some of us are starting to notice that their competition has gotten a LOT more mileage with its conversation-stopping themes of higher border walls and strong civil defense. And, man-oh-man, have they been doing a bang-up job of selling (or otherwise foisting) their “big beautiful” (“Great”) ideas, reaching out/in here, deeply embedded among the People.

So, now (for a limited time only), the Future Historic Re-Habilitation Architecture Club of Berlin (NRHACB) is offering this MADE IN BERLIN photo exhibition to help Everybody/Everywhere fight the good fight in support of more-better heavy-duty, safe-and-comfy Housing for ALL — like, everyone, everywhere. And to advocate for this well-practiced line-of-design, Berlin’s NRHACB — of which I am a mere fringe member/wannabe — is launching this MADE IN BERLIN photo exhibition to help Everybody/Everywhere get the Point (le Point; der Punkt) or “the Vision Thing,” as one American once put it.

Thus, this new Online Exhibition (below) offers
this MADE IN BERLIN Vision for the Future (!).

Offered with all requisit Neoliberal smugness (yet none of the substance), this exhibition’s curators assure us (but do not guarantee) that their Vision for the Future (!) is, like, really-really positive (like, ‘OK-Boomer’), given the fact that our world(s) seem to be destined for our long-term residence in some kind of ‘Great NEW’ concrete ‘n steel Enclosure or another — to which point we raise the all-important aesthetic question:

“…Why not more deck chairs?….”

So, for a limited time only,1 our team of NRHACB Collaborating Curators is thrilled-just-thrilled to offer this Future Historic Rehab Architecture Photo Exhibition… , subtitled: ”Comfy Bunkers of Berlin & Elsewhere.”

Enjoy.

While acknowledging the fact that fewer & fewer of us can afford all we need today, including “good, clean intelligence” like I try to offer here, I’m putting the paywall on this one. (Honestly? You’ve just read the best I have; & if you got a good laugh, that’s as good as it ever gets. Otherwise it’s just 30 bucks a year to see the photos I picked and captioned, PLUS almost two years of ‘deeper dives’ in a range of subjects having to do with the history of art and design… Thanks for lookin’ good…. ;-) -ts

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