On view in Houston as the first show to be installed with Rice School of Architecture’s new Karamuk Kuo–designed William T. Cannady Hall, The Sixth Sphere pulls together 18 entries to examine the effects of human intervention on Earth, the shared concern for the state of our planet, and models of design thinking that move forward with awareness. The exhibition, which closes on February 14, is curated by Brittany Utting, an assistant professor of architecture at Rice University and cofounder of the design and research collaborative HOME-OFFICE. Her curation proposes an unnatural addition to the Earth’s five natural spheres—the lithosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, cryosphere, and atmosphere—in the form of a sixth sphere: the technosphere: “the material, spatial, and technological expression of human production.”
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