On the first floor of the Contemporary Art Museum of Rome is found the MAXXI, where one can visit the exhibition about some great women architects from all over the world. From December 16th to September 11th “Good News” will show the research of the Architecture Department of MAXXI about some great female names of the history of this discipline, always related to men.
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| BUONE NUOVE donne in architettura | foto © Musacchio, Ianniello & Pasqualini | courtesy Fondazione MAXXI |
The exhibition is developed in five sections, thought by the three curators - Pippo Ciorra, Elena Motisi, Elena Tinacci – to give the opportunity to these architects to show their skills, their histories and their works in a prestigious and modern environment.
The first
section called “Stories” is an archive with all the stories of architects like
Charlotte Perriand, Elizabeth Diller and collectives of 40 years ago. The
second area – “In practice” – shows the works of female modern architects from
all the corners of the world, and these stories are explained by female experts
of architecture in the third section, where visitors can listen to their words through
monitors.
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| BUONE NUOVE donne in architettura | foto © Musacchio, Ianniello & Pasqualini | courtesy Fondazione MAXXI |
In the other two sections, there are shown the video projects of some collectives - who had to think about the idea, given by the curators, about “gender and space” - and the commissioned work of the promising Mexican architect Frida Escobedo, who realized a video project about the tapestry installation made reinterpreting a drawing of the German designer Anni Albers.
The exhibition,
set up by the Italian architect Matilde Cassani, is great at ordering and
showing these new ideas, roles and concepts brought by these architects, especially
focused on sustainability, new technologies and materials and spaces to rethink
and rebuild for everyone.
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| BUONE NUOVE donne in architettura | foto © Musacchio, Ianniello & Pasqualini | courtesy Fondazione MAXXI |
