Tag Exhibitions

28-04-2022

Plastic: the counter-revolution! The debate is open

A major exhibition entitled Plastic: Remaking Our World is underway at the Vitra Design Museum, investigating one of the phenomena most characteristic of the past century: the development of plastic, and its transformation from resource into global problem. Can we make it fully recyclable? Will we be able to live without it in the future? Will we be able to clean up the world? Here are the opinions of some key participants in the debate.

25-04-2022

The home and museum of Mariano Fortuny, an artist and designer who never ceases to amaze

The home and museum of Mariano Fortuny y Madrazo, an eclectic genius whose inventions in lighting, fashion, set design and interior design went down in early twentieth-century history, has reopened in Venice. Redesigned by Pier Luigi Pizzi, an architect and great master of theatre direction, Palazzo Fortuny once again reflects its owner’s spirit, suggesting a number of themes for study.

07-04-2022

The art of ceramics is ready to face the challenges of the new millennium

Open until 15 April in the Iris Ceramica Group's Milan flagship store, the exhibition Ceramics: Neverending Artworks offers an opportunity to view a series of twenty-three ceramics designed by twelve great designers and artists. A vision of and reflection on the future accompany the opening of the closing event in the initiative, organised in partnership with Galleria Antonia Jannone Disegni di Architettura.

24-03-2022

In a network, or in a trap? Creative artists answer the question at Centre Pompidou

‘Réseaux-Mondes’ is an exhibition in the arts and culture centre in Paris inviting multidisciplinary debate about the issue that characterises our time more than any other: networks. Sixty artists, designers and architects explore and interpret the theme.

24-03-2022

The university as an urban campus 9 examples for the Good Vibrations exhibition

University campuses and cities can coexist and benefit from their connections, according to the premise of an exhibition that opened on 18 March 2022 at Berlin’s Aedes Architecture Forum, "Good Vibrations - The university as an urban campus – Nine examples from Austria", casting light on nine projects in the Austrian cities of Vienna, Graz and Linz.

16-03-2022

I FARNESE. Architettura, Arte, Potere exhibition in Parma

In Parma, a large exhibition explores the use of the arts as a tool for legitimising power through the works created between the 16th and 18th centuries and commissioned by the important Farnese family. The exhibition also saw an important commitment on the part of the Order of Architects of Parma, both as regards the thematic core dedicated to architecture, as well as in the promotion of initiatives that bring citizens closer to architecture such as the "FarneSiamo" programme aimed at young people.

11-03-2022

Marco Zanuso e Alessandro Mendini Design e Architettura exhibition

On March 7 ADI Design Museum opened an exhibition comparing two key figures in Italian design, Marco Zanuso and Alessandro Mendini. Two very different, even opposed figures who share the same empathy for things and the same ability to bridge the boundaries between disciplines, offering solutions crossing the borderline between design and architecture that are appropriate for today’s new mindsets and tastes.

08-03-2022

XU Tiantian DnA_Design and Architecture Jinyun Quarries – The Quarry as Stage in Berlin

At the Aedes Architecture Forum in Berlin, from March 19 to May 5, an exhibition will narrate the project carried out by Chinese architect Xu Tiantian and his studio DnA_Design and Architecture to revitalise 9 of the more than 3000 old and abandoned stone quarries from the northern part of Jinyun County in Zhejiang Province, China.