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Docomomo Tour Day [Expired]
October 8, 2022 @ 1:00 am - 2:30 pm
The Ant Farm Antioch Art Building (or AFAAB), a currently abandoned studio art building, was designed in 1971 by radical architecture and art collaborative Ant Farm and is located on the campus of Antioch College, a liberal arts college and historical hotbed of American left political activism in the 1960s and 1970s. Ant Farm, who had never built anything besides plastic inflatables before getting the contract from Antioch, lived in a treehouse while they worked on this open, flexible space, which was designed for interdisciplinary artistic mingling. The building resembles a nightclub or a factory located on the edge of a bucolic, wooded college campus. The AFAAB building is one of the few built legacies of that era of architectural experimentation.
Its surviving mass offers itself as a tool for experimenting with new proposals for future-oriented, ecologically conscious re-use and re-design strategies for architecture and the environment in which education and the built realm work in unison.
In this tour we’ll walk around the outside of the building and discuss our recent listing on the National Historic Register.
Park in marked places near the Foundry Theater.