Date

13 June - 17 September 2006 

Description

This exhibition brings together the work of 70 visionary architects since the 1950s through a rich assemblage of models, drawings, photographs and video. All the usual suspects are represented (Debord, Constant, Yona Friedman, Archigram, Archizoom, Superstudio, the Metabolists etc.), but thanks to the central involvement of the FRAC Centre in Orléans, there also many lesser known architects worth discovering, such as Perre Székely or the group Chanéac. Among the contemporaries, similarly, the work of Zaha Hadid, Daniel Libeskind, Neil Denari, UN Studio and MVRDV is complemented by the interesting work of architects such as “R & Sie...,” Jacob & MacFarlane, dECOi, and Kol/Mac Studio.
The exhibition had a richness and density that was perhaps a bit detrimental to an engaging with some material in detail. This was enhanced by the fact that the exhibition design had not made enough of an effort to clearly relate text labels to their objects or computer renderings whose projections dominated the main room in the exhibition space. But still, a worthwhile exhibition.

Curators

Catalog/Books

Catalogue, 336 pages (Thames & Hudson)

Institution

Barbican Art Gallery

Address

Tel.

WWW

www.barbican.org.uk

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