The gallery for Art and Architecture Storefront, from New York, presents the exhibition “Letters to the Mayor” at the Seoul Biennale of Architecture.

“Letters to the Mayor” is an itinerant exhibition which presents letters written by architects to the Municipality of certain cities. Currently exhibited at the Seoul Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism, the project was previously presented in Athens, Bogota, Buenos Aires, Lisbon, Madrid, Mariupol, Mexico, New York, Panama City, Sao Paulo, Taipei and Taichung. This year, the exhibition in Korea is directed both to the representatives of Seoul and Pypnyang. Each edition of "Letters to the Mayor" invites a hundred local and world architects to address both to the politicians and to the public consciousness, it is replaces the architect to the heart of the political arena in his capacity to be new proposal for the improvement of public life. Dominique Perrault sent a letter to Seoul's Mayor Park Wonsoon, thanking him for the opportunity to create an architectural manifesto in his city, the Ewha Women's University campus.The architect invites Park Won-soon, Seoul’s Mayor, to question the importance of the soil and the link between architecture and nature for the future of metropolises. Taking the form of an exhibition and a series of public debates between architects, mayors and citizens, "Letters to the Mayor" opens a discussion on the future of cities and their built environment.
Storefront at the Seoul Biennale: http://seoulbiennale.org/en/exhibitions/cities-exhibition/epilogue/letters-to-the-mayor   Storefront: http://storefrontnews.org/programming/letters-to-the-mayor/ http://storefrontnews.org