Made in Slums

Dopo le mostre dedicate a Cina, Corea e India, Triennale Design Museum con Made in Slums continua a indagare e a esplorare i territori più inattesi del nuovo design internazionale. Questa volta i fari del CreativeSet sono puntati su una piccola realtà locale – lo slum di Mathare, a Nairobi, individuato come paradigma della capacità di una comunità di dotarsi di propri strumenti funzionali e simbolici, realizzati in un originale processo di autoproduzione a partire da pochi materiali presenti nel territorio.

Street Seats Design Challenge Semi-Finalists

WA Chair - Katsuya Arai - New York, NY USA

At a special event on February 28, 2013 fourteen experts and design thought leaders gathered at Design Innovation Gallery, along with a few hundred Design Museum Boston members, to choose the 20 Semi-Finalists in Street Seats Design Challenge. 

The Way We Live. Iwan Baan

© Iwan Baan

Los Angeles
Perry Rubenstein Gallery announces The Way We Live, Iwan Baan’s first solo exhibition at the gallery.  Baan’s work exists at a critical juncture between architectural photography and sociocultural inquiry at a time when urbanization is a driving force behind human evolution.

Design Saint-Etienne

Place au changement/Place du géant. Credit : Collectif ETC, 2011

The eighth edition of the Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Etienne places prospective at the centre of its programming, exploring the major issues of society, and revealing through design the innovations which will influence our life tomorrow.

A Century of Pastoe

Pastoe marks its centenary on 13 April 2013. From February 23rd to June 2nd, 2013, there will be an exhibition at Kunsthal Rotterdam (NL). A team of designers, architects, artists and photographers of national and international importance will be helping decide on suitable content for the festivities. The program is being put together around three themes: History, Environment and Innovation. A centennial book exploring these themes will be published in both Dutch and English editions.

A number of special offers will be brought out to mark the company’s hundred years in business, including a centennial cabinet!

Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes

MoMA presents its first major exhibition on the work of Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, 1887–1965), encompassing his work as an architect, interior designer, artist, city planner, writer, and photographer. 

Richard Meier - Architecture and Design

From May 8th to July 7th 2013, on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of Richard Meier's career, the spaces of the Bisazza Foundation will host a retrospective of the work of American architect. Richard Meier will design also a site-specific installation that will enrich the permanent collection of the Foundation.

Unexpected pleasures

Unexpected Pleasures presents the world’s most surprising works of contemporary jewellery. It challenges the conventional function of jewellery as a symbol of status, sentimentality and taste – forcing the limits of human adornment. Can a ring manufactured to mimic a finger blister be considered a thing of beauty? Does the migration of the iPod from the pocket to the lapel cross the role of industrial designer with jeweller? Does plastering gold leaf to the gums mean the beginning of true self-expression and the ‘end of the trend’?

Colonne portanti

© Federico Ridolfi

Fino al 15 febbraio presso la Fondazione VOLUME! di Roma sarà possibile vedere ciò che Michele De Lucchi ha creato per il luogo. L’architetto ferrarese cerca nelle pareti della galleria le tracce stratificate negli anni, fino alle sue origini di laboratorio artigiano. “I muri sanno sempre tenere i segreti”, scrive nel 2005 in 12 racconti con casette. E così interviene sul corpo dello spazio espositivo, va a riscoprire antiche nicchie ormai nascoste e ne costruisce di nuove. Ogni nicchia è un micromondo, un ulteriore spazio da esplorare, dove trovano posto alcune colonne in legno che realizza personalmente.

Vitra Eames

Venerdì 11 gennaio al Castello Carlo V di Lecce si terrà l'inaugurazione della mostra dedicata a Charles & Ray Eames.

L'Italia di Le Corbusier

Le Corbusier, pseudonym of Charles-Edouard Jeanneret-Gris: architect, sculptor, painter, brilliant thinker of his time, a father of modern town planning and a master of the Modern Movement along with Mies van der Rohe, Gropius, Lloyd Wright and Aalto. MAXXI Architettura is devoting to this figure the exhibition L’Italia di Le Corbusier curated by Marida Talamona (18 October 2012 – 17 February 2013).
Le Corbusier, dal 1920 pseudonimo di Charles-Édouard Jeanneret: architetto, scultore, pittore, geniale pensatore del suo tempo, padre della moderna urbanistica e maestro del Movimento Moderno con Mies van der Rohe, Gropius, Lloyd Wright e Aalto. Il MAXXI Architettura gli ha dedicato la mostra L’Italia di Le Corbusier a cura di Marida Talamona (18 ottobre 2012 – 17 febbraio 2013).