In the exhibition Suburbia. Living the American Dream the Architekturzentrum Wien, and the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, explore that ubiquitous American institution as both the utopian component of the American Dream of the title, as standing proxy for America as a utopia, and as the dystopian component of the American Nightmare, as standing proxy for America as a dystopia, that is unspoken in the title, but very present: Dreams and Nightmares being as they are natural
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Arguably nothing encapsulates the self-image and the external image of the United States of America more universally than the concept and the physical reality of suburbia. Nothing says United States of America quite like suburbia. But what is 'suburbia'? Why is 'suburbia'? How is 'suburbia'? With Suburbia. Living the American Dream the Architekturzentrum Wien invite us all to explore the (hi)story and culture of that most American of locations and thereby to better approach not only suburbia,
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