This prototype of Bird City represents 6 city blocks at full scale and contained 10 live pigeons as occupants. The actual outdoor installation will not be caged--the idea is to attract birds indigenous to the area.

The city will be constructed during two summer-long workshops in the first two years, and an international architectural design invitational in the third and final year. The workshops will be conducted by a team of artists working with student interns from across the country.

• The first year will see the city through various periods in architecture up to the nineteenth century.
• The second year will evaluate, expand and modernize Bird City, carrying it chronologically through the twentieth century to the present.
• The third year will take the city into the future with the commissioning of twelve buildings to be designed and built by internationally-recognized visionary architects.