An exploration of the ongoing transformations within the world of architecture and the tools used to create, represent and communicate it, a reflection of the evolution of our society. Conceived and curated by Pippo Ciorra for MAXXI’s Department of Contemporary Architecture and Design, the exhibition accompany visitors on a journey through the 20th and 21st centuries. The aim is to illustrate how drawing, once architecture’s main tool for representing and defining space, has been flanked and sometimes replaced by new languages and tools since the last decades of the last century. These include digital simulations, collages, videos, practices borrowed from art, exercises in political activism and hands-on participatory forms that shape the spaces we inhabit.
Drawing is thus dissolving into countless different forms, presented in the various sections of the exhibition through the works of significant figures, some drawn from the MAXXI Collection. New digital technologies often replace drawing at the beginning of the design process, while installations, performances and other creative practices aid the work of architects who wish to defend the artistic nature of architectural design. Direct engagement with lived spaces and close collaboration with communities are the preferred tools of those who believe in architecture’s political value. In the digital domain, however, drawing not only resists but becomes the guardian of an ideological and artistic legacy: the exhibition closes precisely with the works of authors who stubbornly defend the traditional, technical and expressive space of drawing with a true declaration of method.
Photo ® Vincenzo Labellarte courtesy Fondazione MAXXI
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