Charlotte Perriand and I. Converging designs by Frank Gehry and Charlotte Perriand

Informazioni Evento

Luogo
ESPACE LOUIS VUITTON
Calle del Ridotto 1353 30124 , Venezia, Italia
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Date
Dal al

anteprima stampa su appuntamento nei giorni 19-20-21 maggio dalle 10 alle 18.
Every day from 10.30am to 6.30pm

Vernissage
19/05/2021

ore 10-18 su appuntamento

Contatti
Email: info_espace.it@louisvuitton.com
Generi
architettura

Evento Collaterale Biennale Architettura 2021.

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Charlotte Perriand and I. Converging designs by Frank Gehry and Charlotte Perriand
Collateral event of the 17th International Architecture Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia
Espace Louis Vuitton Venice, Calle del Ridotto 1353, Venice, Italy
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The Espace Louis Vuitton Venezia opens its new exhibition, bringing together the foundational works of architects Charlotte Perriand and Frank Gehry. In the framework of the Fondation Louis Vuitton “Hors-les-murs” programme, the Espace presents the work by the architects as both historical references and as viable solutions for the issues confronting us today. Two of the projects are exhibited for the first time – Perriand’s “Tritrianon project” (1937) and Gehry’s “Power Pack project” (1969).

In their respective times, Perriand and Gehry responded to the ideas of mobility, prefabrication, and efficiency and put forth ideas that redefined the home. At the onset of the last century, modernism took advantage of industrialization to reframe housing as an industrial process. Arguing for improved qualities of life and hygiene, modernist architects used industrial materials to form a new vision of the built environment. In the context of today’s ecological consciousness, “minimum dwellings” and power pack are precursors to current innovations in independent energy collection and consumption. Their ambition to connect improbable utopian futures with concrete solutions is especially relevant to the real and urgent problems confronting architecture today.