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© TRACEY EMIN. All rights reserved, DACS 2013. Photo: KERRY RYAN.
José Chávez Morado, 'Carnaval en Huejotzingo (Carnival in Huejotzingo)' (detail), 1939. Oil on canvas, 71.1 x 96.5 cm. Collection of Phoenix Art Museum, Gift of Dr. & Mrs. Loyal Davis © DACS 2013.
Richard Rogers Partnership, Lloyd’s of London, 1978-86. © Richard Bryant / arcaidimages.com & Piano + Rogers, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 1971-77. © Francois Le Diascorn / Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images
Sidney Nolan, 'Ned Kelly' (detail), 1946. Enamel paint on composition board. 90.8 x 121.5 cm. National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. Gift of Sunday Reed, 1977.
12 March 2012
At the Geological Society, Piccadilly
Universita Luigi Bocconi, Milan, 2008 by Grafton Architects Photo: Federico Brunetti 
Department of Finance, Merrion Row, Dublin, 2008 by Grafton Architects Photo: Dennis Gilbert
Since 2008, more than half the world’s population now live in cities. For Shelley McNamara and Yvonne Farrell, co-founders of Grafton Architects, “what we build as Architects constructs the world we live in. It defines our world. It is the outer crust of the globe. Architecture is the expression and embodiment of Culture. What we build as Architects is in fact the New Geography.”
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