Architecture + Urbanism recommends 'TRA/BETWEEN Arte e Architettura. Roma Interrotta | Piero Sartogo e gli artisti'

MAXXI presents TRA/BETWEEN Arte e Architettura. Roma Interrotta | Piero Sartogo e gli artisti: two exhibitions in one that retrace the period of a new attention toward contemporary culture promoted at the end of the 1970s through the innovative activities of the Incontri Internazionali d’Arte. 17 April – 21 September 2014
Sala Carlo Scarpa and Sala Gian Ferrari
curated by Achille Bonito Oliva

ROMA INTERROTTA
Roma Interrotta is a re-edition of the 1978 exhibition presented at Trajan’s Market in Rome marked by the interdisciplinary approach to art expressed through the Incontri Internazionali d’Arte and conceived by Piero Sartogo.
Piero Sartogo | Costantino Dardi | Antoine Grumbach | James Stirling | Paolo Portoghesi | Romaldo Giurgola | Robert Venturi | Colin Rowe | Michael Graves | Leon Krier | Aldo Rossi | Robert Krier

PIERO SARTOGO E GLI ARTISTI
This exhibition initiates a dialogue between art and architecture and also retraces the activities of the Incontri Internazionali d’Arte.
Daniel Buren | Gianni Colombo | Joseph Kosuth | Fabio Mauri | Giulio Paolini

Pippo Ciorra / Manchester / 1 May

Pippo Ciorra, Architecture Senior Curator at MAXXI in Rome, will be speaking at the MA A+U International Symposium MANUFACTURING UTOPIA: Happiness in Emerging Environments on May 1. His latest publication Piccole Utopie / Small Utopias: Italian architecture of the third millennium between history, research and innovation is available from Quodlibet. Tickets for the Symposium are available here.

This Year's Models

Periods of economic depression and lack of construction often lead to moments of reflection and reassessment in architecture, and the current European crisis is no exception. As in previous such periods modes of representation come to the fore and it is therefore no surprise that two great European architectural collections are currently hosting exhibitions focussing on architectural models.

In Frankfurt-am-Main, the German Architecture Museum is hosting Architectural Model: Tool, Fetish, Small Utopia from 25 May -16 September 2012
There is a short video on current techniques here

And in Rome MAXXI is hosting Modelli Models from 19 July - 2 April 2013
There is a short video (in Italian) on the exhibition here

Flaminio Film and Book Launch

Recent MA A+U graduate Kathryn Timmins will be holding a book launch and showing her project film on the Flaminio quarter in Rome at 7.00 pm on Wednesday 7 December in The Castle Hotel, Oldham Street, Manchester.

You can see her film here

You can follow her tumblr on the project here

So what did you really think about MAXXI?

During their excursion to Rome MA A+U visited Zaha Hadid's MAXXI. Here's what they thought about it.

Jonas thought it was a brave intervention that represented a new era for Rome.

Angela liked the use of the light

Supriya found that there was a lot of unutilised space

Luke thought it was a generic place that could be anywhere in the world

Jack felt the experience was dominated by the personality of the architect

Craig detected a surprising discontinuity of route which detracted from the experience of the building

Bill said it was untraditional - but didn't like it

Kathryn thought the building had a confusing layout but that is not necessarily a bad thing

Meliz liked the exterior but couldn't find her way round

Carrie thought the big window was an anti- climax

Chen thought that the building had tremendous meaning for the future of Rome
Preeya found the building disorienting

Natalie thought the artworks were overpowered by the building

Angad felt it was an adorable experience of unconventional spaces

Christina thought it was self-centred and out of context

Ketki observed that the look of the structure was out of context with what Rome is all about

Architecture + Urbanism recommends: Moretti at MAXXI

Until 28 November Zaha Hadid's MAXXI in Rome currently hosts an exhibition of the work of Luigi Moretti
Entitled 'From Rationalism to Informalism' the exhibition traces the long and varied career of the architect through his works in Rome and elsewhere. Maristella Casciato and Bruno Reichlin discuss the exhibition in this short video.