Architettura Invisibile

The search for a control of the environment at every design scale, the desire for rede ning the future of society through technology, the development of new ideas for inhabiting the planet: the unbiased architectural experimentations that took place in Japan and Italy in the 1960s and 1970s are at the core of the “Architettura Invisibile (Invisible architecture)” exhibition. 

  The event arises from an exploration of the historical role, in the course of the 1960s and 1970s, of Japanese architecture avant-gardes that convened in the Metabolist movement and in the Italian Radical Architecture. Curated by Rita Elvira Adamo, the exhibition highlights the similarities and disparities between the two experiences.

A wide range of prominent authors, who starting from their innovative experimentations affirmed themselves as protagonists of contemporary architectural research, are part of the exhibition: Arata Isozaki, Archizoom, Superstudio, Kenzo Tange, UFO… their works, that will also be described by means of the publications that contributed to the definition of the reciprocal influences between the researches led in the two countries, will be introduced by a survey of the cultural, artistic, social, political conditions that triggered the rise of these phenomena.

The final segment of the exhibition, symbolized by a large inflatable element specifically designed by Analogique and that will be placed on the terrace of the museum, will accommodate design experiences developed in the last years in Japan and Italy that interpret, some 50 years later, the same themes – environment, technology, Inhabitation – investigated by the Metabolist and radical avant-gardes.

19 January – 26 March 2017
Architettura Invisibile
curated by Rita Elvira Adamo
exhibition design by Studio Analogique
Museo Carlo Bilotti
Aranciera di Villa Borghese
viale Fiorello La Guardia, 6, Rome