The exhibition explores how print media of the time – from colonial daily newspapers to specialist architectural journals, from travel reports and guidebooks to (auto)biographies by/of German colonists – put German colonial architecture ‘into words and images’.
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A House in Istanbul by Architect Bruno Taut
The exhibition examines Bruno Taut’s self-designed house in Istanbul, which is internationally acknowledged as a shared cultural heritage.
Architects at Play
The exhibition introduces the encounter between two figures: that of the architect and that of the child, and explores a series of worlds imagined through their interaction.
Style Congo. Heritage & Heresy
The exhibition visually chronicles the representation of Congo in international expositions held between 1885 and 1958, using Art Nouveau as its anchor point.
Yasmeen Lari: Architecture for the Future
Yasmeen Lari is Pakistan’s first woman architect. She designed iconic modernist buildings before initiating a zero-carbon self-build movement for the poorest of the poor.
eden-eden. Renato Rizzi
The exhibition presents about two hundred gypsum models related to thirty projects by Renato Rizzi.
Europe’s Best Buildings: European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture. Mies van der Rohe Award 2022
An exhibition by the Fundació Mies van der Rohe, Barcelona and Creative Europe at the Architekturzentrum Wien.
Jules Buyssens, Landscape Architect
This exhibition retraces the career of Buyssens, who left his mark on garden history, but also attempts to answer contemporary questions such as the relationship between ecology and landscape architecture and the vocation and ambitions of education in the realm of landscape architecture.
The Architecture of Zvi Hecker. Italian projects
An important opportunity to see all of Zvi Hecker’s Italian projects in Pescara, Italy, on display at the Maison des Arts by Fondazione Pescarabruzzo.
The Muqarnas Pavilion – New South
Muquarnas is a collaboration that aims to re-establish construction innovation as central to contemporary Islamic architecture.
Geoffrey James: Social Spaces — Jože Plečnik in Ljubljana
Thu 30.06.2022 – Thu 28.07.2022, daily 10:00-19:00 The famous Canadian photographer Geoffrey James explores the legacy of Jože Plečnik and his transformation of Ljubljana as a Gesamtkunstwerk. James reveals the social and sensual aspects of Plečnik's work, which are...
Jorge Otero-Pailos: The Ethics of Dust
With this installation Museion seeks to reflect on the role and importance of cultural heritage, ask what and why things should be preserved and stimulate an active conversation with the public.