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Architecture and Vision
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Practice information
Founded2003

Architecture and Vision (AV) is an international and multidisciplinary partnership working in architecture, design and art. Established in 2003, directed by Architect Arturo Vittori and based in Bomarzo Viterbo, Italy. The practice is specialized in innovative solutions and technology transfer between different disciplines like aerospace, art and architecture.

The name "Architecture and Vision" does not only stand for the initials of its two founders, but also reflects their convictions about architecture and how it can make a lasting cultural contribution to its era by taking a visionary look at the future. Architecture and Vision's Utopias aims to improve the conditions of life for everyone. Where technologies and utilizable resources are meant to be used in ways that lead to a peaceful co-existence of man, technical innovations, and nature.[1]

Description

Vittori and Vogler use a human-centered approach, through the advantages of modern Information Technology and the Internet for combining various disciplines to complete projects ranging from terrestrial to space architecture, from surface and marine transport to aeronautics, from urban design and furniture design to personal electronics design, and multimedia art installations. Coordinating with a team of professionals and specialized consultants, AV achieves significant projects and gets involved in every kind of Design and Architecture work.

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WARKAWATER PROJECT
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FioredelCielo
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BirdHouse
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desertseal
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Mercuryhouse

This vision, enables the architects to create and design projects that are elegant, functional, realistic, sensitive to normadic and local material culture, biomorphic and at the same time heart-warming. In order to never lose track of this approach, they work on keeping the designs chopped on permanent edge by tackling projects that deal with extreme conditions, from outer space and the moon to the desert.[2]

Architecture and Visions aims to define a new spirit "Space age", by creating projects for use in outer space, in the most challenging environments of our own planet. This spirit is sustained by cutting edge science and technology and creating an entirely new understanding of the value resources such as water, energy, food and air.[3]

AV is a private organization that is involved in every kind of design, art and architecture projects and research work. It interacts with airlines, space agencies, governmental institutions, universities, research institutions, and foundations as well as commercial companies and private clients. Projects have been designed with ESA (European Space Agency), Asiana Airlines (Korea), Aero Sekur (Italy), the BirdHouse Foundation (Japan), GVM Carrara (Italy), Corsair International, the city of Viterbo, the city of Messina and EDA, the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (Switzerland). AV currently works with Prof. Dr. Pier Giulianotti.[4]

Projects

2014

2013

2012

2011

2009

2007

2006

Selected Exhibitions

2014

  • From Pyramids to Spacecraft, traveling exhibition, Holy Spirit University of Kaslik, Beirut, Lebanon, May 5 - May 19
  • WarkaWater 2.0, Holy Spirit University of Kaslik, Beirut, Lebanon, Aprile 28 - May 9

2013

  • From Pyramids to Spacecraft, traveling exhibition
  • Children Museum Heliopolis, Cairo, Egypt, February 21 - April 25, 2013
  • Parliament Bucharest, ROCAD, Bucharest, Romania, May 15–19, 2013
  • WarkaWater, Futuro Textiles, Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie, Paris, France, February 6 - September 30
  • WarkaWater, MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts, Rome, Italy, 6 December 2013 – 6 April 2014

2012

  • From Pyramids to Spacecraft, traveling exhibition
  • Italian Cultural Institute, Hamburg, Germany, March 28 - April 4, 2012
  • Robert A. Deshon and Karl J. Schlachter Library for Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning (DAAP), University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, USA, April 20 - May 11, 2012
  • Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, May 11–25, 2012
  • American University, Cairo, Egypt, November 19–26, 2012
  • The New Library of Alexandria, Alexandria, Egypt, November 29 - January 15, 2013
  • Born out of Necessity, MoMA The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA, March 2, 2012 – January 28, 2013
  • AtlasCoelestisZero, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, San Francisco, USA, April 17 - May 1, 2012
  • WarkaWater, Palazzo Bembo, 13th Int. Architecture Biennale Venice, Italy, August 29 - November 25, 2012

2011

  • From Pyramids to Spacecraft, traveling exhibition, Beihang Art Gallery, Beijing, China, March 21–31, 2011
  • Shanghai Science and Technology Festival, Pudong Expo, Shanghai, China, May 13–22, 2011
  • Living - Frontiers of Architecture III-IV, Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark, June 1 - October 2, 2011

2010

  • From Pyramids to Spacecraft, traveling exhibition The Goldstein Museum of Design, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, March 14 - May 2, 2010
  • Italian Cultural Institute Tokyo, Japan, June 21 - July 3, 2010
  • Great Lakes Science Center, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, October 15 - January 13, 2011
  • Deutscher Pavillon, Architecture Biennale Venice, Italy, August 25 - November 21, 2010

2009

  • From Pyramids to Spacecraft, traveling exhibition: Italian Cultural Institute, Chicago, Illinois, United States, March 13 - April 22,
  • Swissnex, San Francisco, California, United States, April 30 - May 20
  • Seoul Design Olympiad 2009, Seoul, Korea, October 9–29
  • MercuryHouseOne, 53rd Art Biennale Venice San Servolo Island, Venice, Italy, September 2 - October 20,
  • FioredelCielo, Palazzo Orsini, Bomarzo, Italy, September 5 - September 7,
  • ACADIA, School of the Art Institute Chicago, USA, September 25 - January 9, 2010

2008

  • Fifteen Roman Architects, New Challenges for the City of Tomorrow, come se Gallery, Rome, Italy, March 14–30
  • Le Città del Futuro (Cities of Tomorrow),Parco della Musica, Rome, Italy, March 1,

2007

  • 2057, l’espace des 50 prochaines années,Cité de l’Espace, Toulouse, France, November 27 - February 4, 2008
  • Istanbul Design Week 2007, Istanbul, Turkey, September 4–10
  • Air de Paris, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, April 25 - August 15

2006

  • FuturoTextiles, Tri Postal, Lille, France, November 14 - January 14, 2007
  • Abenteuer Raumfahrt, Landesmuseum für Technik und Arbeit, Mannheim, Germany, September 28 - April 9, 2007
  • Leonardo: Man, Inventor, Genius, Modern-day Leonardos,The Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, USA, June 14 - Sept 4

2005

  • SAFE: Design Takes on Risk, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, United States, November 16 - January 2, 2006

Recognition

Several projects designed by Architecture and Vision, have received international recognition. In 2006, a prototype of the extreme environment tent, "DesertSeal" (2004), became part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, after being featured in SAFE: Design Takes on Risk (2005), curated by Paola Antonelli. In the same year, Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry selected Vittori and Vogler as "Modern-day Leonardos" for its Leonardo da Vinci: Man, Inventor, Genius exhibition. In 2007, a model of the inflatable habitat "MoonBaseTwo" (2007), developed to allow long-term exploration on the Moon, was acquired for the collection of the Museum of Science and Industry, while "MarsCruiserOne" (2007), the design for a pressurized laboratory rover for the exploration of Mars, was shown at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, as part of the exhibition Airs de Paris (2007).[5] AV also appeared several times at the Venice Biennale, where the project WarkaWater has been shown as well. The latter was also exhibited at the Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie in Paris and the MAXXI Museum in Rome.

References

  1. ^ klein, Caroline (22 December 2011). Futuristic: Visions of Future Living. Daab. ISBN 3942597098.
  2. ^ Antonelli, Paola (2009). From Pyramids to Spacecraft. Architecture and Vision. ISBN 3000269592.
  3. ^ "exhibition".
  4. ^ "Pier Cristoforo Giulianotti".
  5. ^ "Centre Pompidou".
  • Paola Antonelli (ed.), Safe: Design Takes on Risk, The Museum of Modern Art, New York 2005, p. 64. ISBN 0-87070-580-6
  • Valérie Guillaume, "architecture + vision. Mars Cruiser One 2002-2006", in Airs de Paris, Diffusion Union-Distribution, Paris 2007, pp. 338–339. ISBN 978-2-84426-325-4
  • Namita Goel, The Beauty of the Extreme, Indian Architect & Builder, March 2006, pp. 82–83.
  • Arturo Vittori, Architecture and Vision, in L'Arca, October 2004, 196, pp. 26–38.
  • Un veicolo per Marte. Mars Cruiser One, in L'Arca, April 2007, 224, p. 91.
  • Ruth Slavid, Micro: Very Small Buildings, Laurence King Publishing, London, pp. 102–106, ISBN 978-1-85669-495-7
  • Wüstenzelt Desert Seal / Desert Seal Tent, in Detail, 2008, 6, pp. 612–614
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