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FRONTIERE. The Geopolitics of Architecture
The exhibition examines how architects respond to global instability, redefining design's role and responsibilities amid contemporary geopolitical uncertainty.
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Preview: written before the show opened
The press text for the show's Skira book promises a circular room given over to EXIT, the "geopolitical" animation Diller Scofidio + Renfro designed for the Fondation Cartier. The same text lists Jasmina Cibic's film The Gift, on architecture, politics and place, and three short films by fellows of the European LINA network, made in MAXXI's Architecture Film Lab.
The rest is maps, installations and 1:1-scale interventions on how architects answer conflict, climate crisis, migration and economic imbalance: reuse, sustainable materials, new ways of living. Pippo Ciorra co-curates with Dario Fabbri, a geopolitics journalist, not an architect. Lorenza Baroncelli, who runs MAXXI Architecture, told Il Giornale dell'Arte that this instability has finished off the myth of the archistar. The wake is being held in a Zaha Hadid building.
You'll find it in Galleria KME from 18 December. It comes with the museum ticket, 15 EUR (14 online), free for under-18s, Tuesday to Sunday, 11am to 7pm. It hasn't opened, so this is the museum's account.
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A round room is given over to EXIT, Diller Scofidio + Renfro's "geopolitical" animation. Co-curated by a geopolitics journalist rather than an architect, the show asks how design answers conflict, migration and climate, inside a Zaha Hadid building.
Look for
EXIT, in its own round room
The 'geopolitical' animation Diller Scofidio + Renfro designed for the Fondation Cartier gets a circular room to itself.
Jasmina Cibic's The Gift
A film on the tangled relationship between architecture, politics and place.
The LINA short films
Three short films on architectural design and the built environment, made by LINA fellows in MAXXI's Architecture Film Lab workshop.
Good for
- Nerding Out
With kids
Under-18s get in free.
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Image credits
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- FRONTIERE. The Geopolitics of Architecturephoto by Bai Yu
- Marina Bindella. CosmografieCourtesy of Museo Carlo Bilotti
- AEGYPTUS. Dal Nilo al Mediterraneo. Oasi e deserto in epoca romanaCourtesy of National Roman Museum - Palazzo Massimo
- Le Litanie della Vergine di Mario Deluigi. Dialogue between the Sacred and AbstractionCourtesy of Vatican Museums
- MAXXI - National Museum of 21st Century ArtsAlbertSpiegelei, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0