Date

Rotterdam (Netherlands): 24 January - 6 May 2007

Description

This exhibition presents for the first time a history of architectural illumination and its context. Paintings, photographs, films and luminous models are used demonstrate the different roles that electric light has played as a design element in architecture since 1889. The historical sections present, for example the lighting experiments at world fairs, in particular at the Eiffel Tower, the visions of German Expressionist Architects and illumination concepts of classic modernism of the 1920s. An extensive section presents contemporary projects by Herzog & de Meuron, Peter Zumthor, Rem Koolhaas, UN Studio, NOX and Daniel Libeskind. Among the highlights of the exhibition are the first ever model of the Eiffel Tower (1887), Nicolas Schoeffer’s Tour Lumière Cybernétique (1961), original drawings by Bruno Taut, Wenzel Hablik, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and many others, as well as 25 luminous models (9 of which were commissioned for the exhibition.)

The Catalogue contains essays by Jean Louis Cohen, Thomas van den Leeuven, Dietrich Neumann, Hollis Clayson and many others.

Curators

Catalog/Books

Catalogue (texts in English and German) ed. by M. Ackermann and D. Neumann, publ. by Hatje/Cantz

Institution

Netherlands Architecture Institute

Address

Tel.

WWW

http://www.nai.nl/e/calendar/activities/nightarch_e.html

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