Architecture and Vision exhibited in Minneapolis

Currently at the Goldstein Museum of Design in Minneapolis, the travelling exhibition "From Pyramids to Spacecraft" is displaying selected projects by the design studio Architecture and Vision, founded by Italian architect Arturo Vittori and Swiss architect Andreas Vogler with offices in Munich, Germany and Bomarzo, Italy. 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. Arturo Vittori and Andreas Vogler will be teaching at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis from March 8 - 12, and will be lecturing Monday, March 8, 2010

Architecture and Vision: From Pyramids to Spacecraft
Exhibition, March 14 - May 2, 2010
The Goldstein Museum of Design, Minneapolis, USA


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