The Howard Gilman Archive of Visionary Architectural Drawings
What would it be like to live in R. Buckminster Fuller's hexagonal Dymaxion House? To visit Arata Isozaki's project for Hiroshima? To grow up in John Hejduk's Wall House? There are only fictional answers to questions such as these, but what imagination wouldn't ponder them upon seeing the drawings assembled in The Changing of the Avant Garde? Featuring 165 expertly reproduced visionary architectural drawings from The Museum of Modern Art's Howard Gilman Archive, this collection brings together a selection of idealized, fantastic, and utopian architectural drawings mainly from the 1960s and 70s. This publication, the first to consider the drawings since the archive was established in 1998, is accompanied by essays exploring the significance of the works, and an interview with Pierre Apraxine, the former curator of the collection. With visionary drawings by visionary architects > Raimund Abraham, Emilio Ambasz, R. Buckminster Fuller, Peter Cook, Yona Friedman, John Hejduk, Ron Herron, Arata Isozaki, Rem Koolhaas, Leon Krier, Alessandro Mendini, Gaetano Pesce, Walter Pichler, Cedric Price, Aldo Rossi, Massimo Scholari, Ettore Sottsass, Friedrich St. Florian, Superstudio, Michael Webb, Elia Zenghelis, and others.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York web site >>
Visionary Architectural Drawings from the Howard Gilman Collection >>

This year, the Venice Biennale, long established as the world's most significant venue for debate on contemporary architecture, is signaling a new direction for design, a move away from the virtual and toward the material. From September 8 to November 3 the Biennale will host Next, an exploration of the imminent future of architecture. Under the directorship of Deyan Sudjic, the London based critic and curator, the exhibition brings together more than 100 projects currently being built that each in their own way will serve to define the nature of architecture in the years to come.
Venice Biennale 2001 >>
La Biennale Di Venezia by Germano Celant >>

Mies in America
This exhibition explores Mies van der Rohe’s encounter with American technology between 1938 and 1969, which revolutionized the teaching and practice of architecture. Mies’s metaphysical search for a building art of his time is traced through his avid reading in various fields, his art collecting, the collages, drawings, and models he made while struggling to define a new language of structure, space, and urbanism, and finally, his leap to resolution in forging two new building types: the high-rise tower complex and the clear-span pavilion. With the IIT campus, the Farnsworth House and the Seagram Building, structure and space became transcendent, culminating in his last great work, the New National Gallery in Berlin, where deep, dark, austere space heightens the connection between the constructed world and the human spirit.

Mies in Berlin / Mies in America web site >>
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago >>
Mies in America by Phyllis Lambert >>

The opening exhibition "Sturm der Ruhe. What is Architecture?" at the new Architekturzentrum Wien has a deliberately programmatic message. An institution that is dedicated to the mediation and propagation of architecture has to question its own role at a time when it is repositioning itself.

Frank Gehry, Architect
For more than 40 years, Frank Gehry has brought a keen eye and an inventive mind to the methods and materials employed to enclose space, thereby creating the powerful forms that distinguish his work. In so doing, he has changed the way architecture is made.

Domestic delights - The finest examples from the NAi's collection of house architecture
The Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi) is putting on an exhibition about some of the most beautiful and remarkable of private houses built in the Netherlands during the last two hundred years, including many designs which have never been shown to the public before. The exhibition will take place in the Main Hall of the NAi Building in Rotterdam from October 14, 2001 to January 27, 2002. Many of the models, photos, drawings and other documents come from the NAi's archives and library