Not to miss this summer in London : AA’s selection
AA invites you to discover its selection of summer exhibitions taking place in the British capital.
“The Return of the Past: Postmodernism in British Architecture”
The exhibition proposed by Sir John Soane’s Museum will focus on the early ‘radical moment’ of Postmodernism, which will reveal itself to be one of the most inventive periods in British architectural history.
Focusing on a selection of pivotal works by the movement’s principal protagonists – Terry Farrell, Piers Gough, Jeremy Dixon, John Outram and James Stirling/Michael Wilford – the exhibition will feature a range of stunning drawings, models and images, as well as full-scale replicas and fragments of actual buildings. Much of this material has never been exhibited publicly.
“The Return of the Past: Postmodernism in British Architecture”
Until August 17th 2018
Sir John Soane’s Museum – 3 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London, WC2A 3BP
Wednesday to Sunday, 10 am – 5 pm
“The Future Starts Here”
Victoria and Albert Museum explores the power of design in shaping the world of tomorrow. Portraits of Chelsea Manning generated by her DNA, a chargeable shirt which can power a smartphone, objects printed by the world’s first zero gravity printer, a global seed bank to prevent loss of plant species in the event of a crisis, driverless cars… “The Future Starts Here” brings together ground-breaking technologies and designs currently in development in studios and laboratories around the world.
“The Future Starts Here”
Until November 4th 2018
V&A Museum – Cromwell Road, London SW7 2RL
Monday to Sunday, 10 am – 5.45 pm – late night Friday until 10 pm
Ed Ruscha “Course of Empire”
Ed Ruscha’s exhibition at National Gallery is a response to a sequence of paintings created by Thomas Cole (1801–1848) in the 1830s, which is concurrently on view at the National Gallery in “Thomas Cole: Eden to Empire”. Ed Ruscha shaped the way we see the American landscape over the span of his influential six-decade career. Unlike Cole’s grandiose vision of the rise and fall of an imaginary classical civilisation, “Course of Empire” shows the industrial buildings of Los Angeles – simple, box-like, utilitarian structures with no pretension to beauty, but suggestive of economic impact and global corporate relationships.
Ed Ruscha “Course of Empire”
Until October 7th 2018
National Gallery – Trafalgar Square, London WC2N 5DN
Monday to Sunday, 10am – 6pm –late night Friday until 9 pm
“Disappear here”
Perspective drawing has been applied to the art of building for centuries and used as a tool to evoke illusory architectural spaces: a way of seeing which became a way of building. By translating three-dimensional space onto a two-dimensional surface, it has become the ultimate quest to depict realistic impressions of a complex world.
This exhibition explores how perspective spans truth and illusion, linking the disciplines of art, architecture and mathematics. Collaborative architecture and design office Sam Jacob Studio has redesigned the RIBA‘s Architecture Gallery as a conceptual, interactive space, where the visitor becomes a participant within the space of representation, while viewing original drawings and rare books by some of the most talented designers in history.
“Disappear here”
From May 2nd to October 7th 2018
RIBA – 66 Portland Place, London, W1B 1AD
Opened from Monday to Saturday from 10am to 7pm. Tuesday from 10am to 8pm.
Texts from the exhibitions’ press releases.
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