"From Pyramids to Spacecraft" is a traveling exhibition displaying selected projects by the design studio Architecture and Vision, founded by Italian architect Arturo Vittori and Swiss architect Andreas Vogler.
Exhibition Details
Architecture and Vision: from Pyramids to Spacecraft
- March 8–May 2, 2010
- Gallery 241
Vittori and Vogler have been working together since 2003 and received a number of important international recognitions. In 2006, their prototype for a tent, DesertSeal (2004), became part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Vittori and Vogler were named Modern-day Leonardos in the same year by the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago for the exposition Leonardo da Vinci: Man, Inventor, Genius. They share a keen interest in technology and the endless beauty of the world. They have both been working in the aerospace field and this challenges the way they think about life on Earth. They share the belief that respect of nature and the intelligent use and development of its resources can have a deep impact on the quality of our lives.
Projects shown in the exhibition include MoonBaseTwo, an inflatable space station for conducting experiments on the Moon, First and Business Class for Asiana Airlines, La Macchina di Santa Rosa di Viterbo and the MercuryHouseOne, which was presented at the Biennale in Venice in 2009 as well as many other inspiring projects ranging from product design to architecture.
This exhibition was cosponsored by the College of Design, Goldstein Museum of Design, University of Minnesota, Consulate General of Switzerland of Chicago, and Italian Cultural Institute Chicago.
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