Suburbia. Building the American Dream - Centre de Cultura Contemporània de BarcelonaExhibitions
03/20/2024 - 09/08/2024

In our collective imagination, the suburbs are the epitome of the American dream: a single-family home with a garden, porch, lawn and pool. Since the 1950s, when it consolidated as a family space, this urban model has been exported all over the world, bringing along its unsustainability issues. The exhibition Suburbia. Building the American Dream" at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona -CCCB- explores this phenomenon by studying how American suburbs were formed, how they differ from one another, how they have evolved, and how their expansion will affect the planet. Through historical materials, photographs, illustrations and art installations, the exhibition presents a cultural history of the American suburb.