Article: Wishful Thinking
Amateur Cities

The White House

The White House by Ryan Mendoza
The White House by Ryan Mendoza. Photo courtesy of Ryan and Fabia Mendoza

Ten years after the onset of the housing crisis, Detroit is still afflicted with emptiness and blight that it left behind. Ryan Mendoza preserved this part of American history by bringing an abandoned single family house around the world. What if we could make places so telling about the inglorious urban histories more prominent? Should they not be equally un-forgotten as the big heroes whose statues decorate our public squares?