Thu June 19, 2014
Small Utopias - Opening event
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at Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco
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SMALL UTOPIAS: Italian architecture of the third millennium between history, research and innovation is an exhibition on the “new” Italian architecture curated and designed by MAXXI Architettura for the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The itinerary of the show explores the most notable tendencies in new Italian architecture by focusing on three parallel topics: architects, projects, and themes.
The first topic, that of architects and their biographies, allows us to understand the shifting position and evolving education of Italian architects, who are much more involved in the international cultural and professional scene than they were in the final decades of the twentieth century.
The second topic, that of projects, presents examples of notable completed projects, often the result of new relationships between private and institutional commissions.
The third topic documents a new tendency towards issues connected with current research, meaning expressive, social, scientific, technological and ecological innovation. By superimposing these multiple viewpoints, we can identify some of the more interesting Italian architects and glimpse the new horizon of a rapidly evolving world.
The themes we explore include ecology and sustainability, the integration of new technologies, public spaces and relationships involving old and new communities, the feasibility of recycling existing resources, the quality of the panorama whether urban or rural, quality and innovation in residential projects, and the relationship with historical structures and heritage.
The ten architects chosen for this exhibition represent the tip of the iceberg of highly original architectural production. The inventiveness on display reminds us of some of the features of Italian architecture that we had forgotten and that seem to be especially suited to our day and age: first and foremost the natural tendency to blend memory and future, the regeneration of what already exists, and the allure of the new.
This event is part of San Francisco Design Week 2014.
Opens 19 June, 6:30. On view until 15Aug. M-F 10-4
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The first topic, that of architects and their biographies, allows us to understand the shifting position and evolving education of Italian architects, who are much more involved in the international cultural and professional scene than they were in the final decades of the twentieth century.
The second topic, that of projects, presents examples of notable completed projects, often the result of new relationships between private and institutional commissions.
The third topic documents a new tendency towards issues connected with current research, meaning expressive, social, scientific, technological and ecological innovation. By superimposing these multiple viewpoints, we can identify some of the more interesting Italian architects and glimpse the new horizon of a rapidly evolving world.
The themes we explore include ecology and sustainability, the integration of new technologies, public spaces and relationships involving old and new communities, the feasibility of recycling existing resources, the quality of the panorama whether urban or rural, quality and innovation in residential projects, and the relationship with historical structures and heritage.
The ten architects chosen for this exhibition represent the tip of the iceberg of highly original architectural production. The inventiveness on display reminds us of some of the features of Italian architecture that we had forgotten and that seem to be especially suited to our day and age: first and foremost the natural tendency to blend memory and future, the regeneration of what already exists, and the allure of the new.
This event is part of San Francisco Design Week 2014.
Opens 19 June, 6:30. On view until 15Aug. M-F 10-4
SMALL UTOPIAS: Italian architecture of the third millennium between history, research and innovation is an exhibition on the “new” Italian architecture curated and designed by MAXXI Architettura for the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The itinerary of the show explores the most notable tendencies in new Italian architecture by focusing on three parallel topics: architects, projects, and themes.
The first topic, that of architects and their biographies, allows us to understand the shifting position and evolving education of Italian architects, who are much more involved in the international cultural and professional scene than they were in the final decades of the twentieth century.
The second topic, that of projects, presents examples of notable completed projects, often the result of new relationships between private and institutional commissions.
The third topic documents a new tendency towards issues connected with current research, meaning expressive, social, scientific, technological and ecological innovation. By superimposing these multiple viewpoints, we can identify some of the more interesting Italian architects and glimpse the new horizon of a rapidly evolving world.
The themes we explore include ecology and sustainability, the integration of new technologies, public spaces and relationships involving old and new communities, the feasibility of recycling existing resources, the quality of the panorama whether urban or rural, quality and innovation in residential projects, and the relationship with historical structures and heritage.
The ten architects chosen for this exhibition represent the tip of the iceberg of highly original architectural production. The inventiveness on display reminds us of some of the features of Italian architecture that we had forgotten and that seem to be especially suited to our day and age: first and foremost the natural tendency to blend memory and future, the regeneration of what already exists, and the allure of the new.
This event is part of San Francisco Design Week 2014.
Opens 19 June, 6:30. On view until 15Aug. M-F 10-4
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The first topic, that of architects and their biographies, allows us to understand the shifting position and evolving education of Italian architects, who are much more involved in the international cultural and professional scene than they were in the final decades of the twentieth century.
The second topic, that of projects, presents examples of notable completed projects, often the result of new relationships between private and institutional commissions.
The third topic documents a new tendency towards issues connected with current research, meaning expressive, social, scientific, technological and ecological innovation. By superimposing these multiple viewpoints, we can identify some of the more interesting Italian architects and glimpse the new horizon of a rapidly evolving world.
The themes we explore include ecology and sustainability, the integration of new technologies, public spaces and relationships involving old and new communities, the feasibility of recycling existing resources, the quality of the panorama whether urban or rural, quality and innovation in residential projects, and the relationship with historical structures and heritage.
The ten architects chosen for this exhibition represent the tip of the iceberg of highly original architectural production. The inventiveness on display reminds us of some of the features of Italian architecture that we had forgotten and that seem to be especially suited to our day and age: first and foremost the natural tendency to blend memory and future, the regeneration of what already exists, and the allure of the new.
This event is part of San Francisco Design Week 2014.
Opens 19 June, 6:30. On view until 15Aug. M-F 10-4
show less
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Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco
814 Montgomery Street, San Francisco, CA 94133
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