Paul Laffoley
(b. 1940, Cambridge, Massachusetts)

Das Urpflanzehaus
1997
Ink, Lettering, Collage, Acrylic on Board
30 1/2 x 30 1/2 in.

Subject: The Vegetable-House as the Answer to Low Cost Housing

Symbol Evocation: The Apotheosis of Being in Pauperis

Comments: The modern movement in architecture is based primarily upon the utopian solution to the most basic of building types: mass-housing. As we enter the Bauharoque Period with its bulging populations, unwinable wars, the degrading of the world environment, and gradual increase in poverty level life styles, what could be more plausible than having the world housing shortage ended by simply sowing genetically altered seeds so that houses could be grown almost anywhere on the surface of the earth, with a growing time of approximately two months.

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