The most comprehensive exhibition of Gaudí's Unfinished Masterpiece. The exhibition includes many works never before seen by public.

Opening: Sagrada Família - Gaudí's Unfinished Masterpiece

Curator: Dean George Ranalli

Co-Curator: Professor Fabián Llonch

The Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture at The City College of New York is poised to host a once-in-a-lifetime exhibition of La Sagrada Familia, the magnum opus of Antoni Gaudí , the father of Catalan Modernisme. This is the only time that such a demonstration of Gaudí's genius will be featured on American soil. Many institutions have vied for this singular opportunity, and City College is honored to offer this extraordinary experience to New York City. The exhibit includes several architectural models and casts used in construction, and showcases the 3D computer imaging software used to analyze and draw precise tridimensional geometry.

The exhibit Sagrada Família - Gaudí's Unfinished Masterpiece: Geometry, Construction and Site will be on view from September 29, 2014, to May 8, 2015, in the Atrium Gallery, Monday-Friday 9:00 a.m.- 5:00 p.m. free of charge.

• Open Reception
• Monday, September 29, 2014
• 6-8 p.m.

• City College of New York
• Spitzer School of Architecture - Atrium Gallery
• 141 Convent Avenue
• New York, NY 10031
• [Directions >]

La exposición más completa de la obra maestra inacabada de Gaudí. La exposición incluye muchas obras nunca antes vistas por el público.

Curador: Dean George Ranalli

Co-Curador: Profesor Fabián Llonch

La  Escuela de Arquitectura Bernard y Anne Spitzer en el City College de Nueva York está a punto de presentar una exposición única y sin precedentes de la Sagrada Familia, la obra magna de Antoni Gaudí, el padre del modernismo catalán. Esta es la primera vez que se presentará en suelo americano una demostración del genio de Gaudí. Muchas instituciones han competido por esta oportunidad singular, y el City College tiene el honor de ofrecer esta extraordinaria experiencia de la ciudad de Nueva York. La exposición incluye varias maquetas arquitectónicas, moldes reales utilizados en la construcción, y muestra el software de imágenes e impresión en 3D que se utiliza para analizar y dibujar con precisión las geometrías tridimensionales.

La exposición de la Sagrada Família - Obra maestra inacabada de Gaudí: Geometría, Construcción y Sitio estarán a la vista del 29 de septiembre de 2014 al 8 de mayo de 2015, en la Galería Atrium, de lunes a viernes de 9:00 am a 17:00 de forma gratuita .
Inauguración
Lunes, 29 de septiembre 2014
6-8 pm
City College de Nueva York
Escuela de Arquitectura de Spitzer - Atrium Gallery
141 Avenida Convent
Nueva York, NY 10031
[Cómo llegar>]

Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955–1980

March 29–July 12, 2015

The Joan and Preston Robert Tisch Exhibition Gallery, sixth floor

In 1955 The Museum of Modern Art staged Latin American Architecture since 1945, a landmark survey of modern architecture in Latin America. On the 60th anniversary of that important show, the Museum returns to the region to offer a complex overview of the positions, debates, and architectural creativity from Mexico and Cuba to the Southern Cone between 1955 and the early 1980s.

This period of self-questioning, exploration, and complex political shifts also saw the emergence of the notion of Latin America as a landscape of development, one in which all aspects of cultural life were colored in one way or another by this new attitude to what emerged as the “Third World.” The 1955 exhibition featured the result of a single photographic campaign, but Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955–1980 brings together a wealth of original materials that have never before been brought together and, for the most part, are rarely exhibited even in their home countries.

The exhibition features architectural drawings, architectural models, vintage photographs, and film clips alongside newly commissioned models and photographs. While the exhibition focuses on the period of 1955 to 1980 in most of the countries of Latin America, it is introduced by an ample prelude on the preceding three decades of architectural developments in the region, presentations of the development of several key university campuses in cities like Mexico City and Caracas, and a look at the development of the new Brazilian capital at Brasilia. Architects met these challenges with formal, urbanistic, and programmatic innovation, much of it relevant still to the challenges of our own period, in which Latin America is again providing exciting and challenging architecture and urban responses to the ongoing issues of modernization and development, though in vastly different economic and political contexts than those considered in this major historical reevaluation.

The exhibition is accompanied by two major publications: a catalogue and an anthology of primary texts translated from Spanish and Portuguese.

Organized by Barry Bergdoll, Curator, and Patricio del Real, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Architecture and Design, The Museum of Modern Art; Jorge Francisco Liernur, Universidad Torcuato di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina; and Carlos Eduardo Comas, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil; with the assistance of an advisory committee from across Latin America.

The exhibition is supported in part by The Reed Foundation

Research and travel support was provided by The International Council of The Museum of Modern Art.

Serpentine Pavilion 2014 designed by Chilean architect Smiljan Radić

Architect's statement:
"The Serpentine Pavilion 2014 continues a history of small romantic constructions seen in parks or large gardens, the so-called follies that were popular from the late sixteenth century to the beginning of the nineteenth century. 

In general, follies appear as ruins or have been worn away by time, displaying an extravagant, surprising and often archaic form. These characteristics artificially dissolve the temporal and physical limits of the constructions into their natural surroundings. The 2014 Pavilion takes these principles and applies them using a contemporary architectural language.

The unusual shape and sensual qualities of the Pavilion have a strong physical impact on the visitor, especially juxtaposed with the classical architecture of the Serpentine Gallery. From the outside, visitors see a fragile shell in the shape of a hoop suspended on large quarry stones. Appearing as if they had always been part of the landscape, these stones are used as supports, giving the pavilion both a physical weight and an outer structure characterised by lightness and fragility. The shell, which is white, translucent and made of fibreglass, contains an interior that is organised around an empty patio at ground level, creating the sensation that the entire volume is floating. The simultaneously enclosed and open volumes of the structure explore the relationship between the surrounding Kensington Gardens and the interior of the Pavilion. The floor is grey wooden decking, as if the interior were a terrace rather than a protected interior space.

At night, the semi-transparency of the shell, together with a soft amber-tinted light, draws the attention of passers-by like lamps attracting moths.

- Smiljan Radić

more info:

http://www.serpentinegalleries.org/exhibitions-events/serpentine-galleries-pavilion-2014-smiljan-radic

Diseño que sobrevivirá a la humanidad

Massimo Vignelli dies aged 83 / Massimo Vignelli muere a los 83

Barranca del Buen Aire > Inicio de Obra.

Groundbreaking @ Barranca del Buen Aire. Stay tuned...

Ahora podes seguirnos en FaceBook

Felices Fiestas! Happy Holidays!

Llonch+Vidallé les desea muy felices fiestas y lo mejor para el 2013 !

Llonch+Vidallé wishes you very happy holidays and the best for 2013 !