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Exploring Fashion's Influence on Society: "Memorabile. Ipermoda" Exhibition at MAXXI Museum

Exploring the Impact of Fashion on Society What makes fashion truly “memorable” and capable of driving change within society? How does fashion itself mirror the complexities of social, political, economic, and cultural evolution? These thought-provoking themes are at the heart of the exhibition titled “Memorabile. Ipermoda,” currently being showcased at the MAXXI Museum in Rome. This captivating…

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Architectural Photography

By Francesca Pompei.

Interiors of the MAXXI Museum built by Zaha Hadid Architects in Rome, Italy with date 2009.

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MAXXI foundation, Roma

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Fridtjof Nansen, In northern mists: Arctic exploration in early times, 1911 (cover image of volume 2) VS Zaha Hadid, MAXXI: Museum of XXI Century Arts, Rome, Italy, 1998-2009 ph. Simone Cecchetti

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Museo Maxxi Roma, 2018

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‘Ancient Roman’ Solar Roof Tiles Power Pompeii Villa

Ancient Roman ruins at Pompeii have been fitted with invisible solar panels, in a move that will contribute to the archaeological site’s sustainability efforts and cut costs. The innovative panels, which blend into the background by imitating traditional materials, were installed on the House of Cerere, on a thermopolium — a Roman snack bar — and on the House of the Vettii, which recently reopened following 20 years of restoration work.

“They look exactly like the terracotta tiles used by the Romans, but they produce the electricity that we need to light the frescoes,” said Gabriel Zuchtriegel, the director of the archaeological park of Pompeii, in a press release.

Each year, 3.5 million tourists explore the vast ruins of the ancient Roman city, which was buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. But due to Pompeii’s size, energy bills are expensive and conventional methods of providing power across the site can threaten its appearance.

“Pompeii is an ancient city which in some spots is fully preserved,” Zuchtriegel said. “Since we needed an extensive lighting system, we could either keep consuming energy, leaving poles and cables around and disfiguring the landscape, or choose to respect it and save millions of euros.” The new technology will help the archaeological site to cut energy bills and make it more enjoyable, he added.

The invisible solar panels — or “traditional PV tiles” as they are technically known — were created by the Italian company Dyaqua. They can be designed to appear like stone, wood, concrete or brick, and hidden on walls, floors and roofs, according to Elisabetta Quagliato, whose family owns Dyaqua, in the press statement.

“We are an archaeological site but we also want to be a real-life lab for sustainability and the valorization of intangible heritage,” Zuchtriegel said. “Our initiative is not merely symbolic. Through the million tourists who visit us every year, we want to send a message to the world: cultural heritage can be managed differently and in a more sustainable way.”

Other locations in Italy using the invisible solar technology are the commune of Vicoforte in Italy and, soon, Rome’s contemporary art museum Maxxi. Public buildings in Evora, Portugal, and Split, Croatia will also install the panels, according to the press statement.

Pompeii’s recent use of these panels is just the beginning, Zuchtriegel said. “From now on, we will be taking this solution into account for all future renovation and restoration projects.”

By Garry Shaw.

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📍Rome, Italy

Landed in Rome yesterday afternoon and have had fun exploring the city. Yesterday we visited the Colosseum and viewed the Roman Forum from above. Today we went to the National Museum of Rome - Baths of Diocletian, explored Trastevere, went to Auditorium Parco della Musica and the MAXXI - National Museum of 21st Century Art.

It has been a great experience so far in Italy and I am looking forward to exploring more of Rome tomorrow and then Florence and Milan later in the trip! 🇮🇹

As for food I have had excellent pizza, pasta, gelato, red wine and even shots of limoncello.

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DAME GIOVANNA MELANDRI // POLITICIAN

“She is an Italian-American politician. She was an MP in the Italian Parliament for 18 years (1994–2012), holding the positions of Minister of Culture (1998–2001) and Minister of Youth and Sport (2006–2008). She was the president of MAXXI, the National Museum of the 21st Century Arts of Rome, until November 1st 2022. She is currently the chairwoman of the Human Foundation.”

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obligatory reading for my dear mutuals and archive for my 'favorites' tag (#thank u op):

okay so im looking at El Croquis 52, the one on EARLY Zaha Hadid and... wow. i already know and love so much of those early and full of rhythm perspectives, of course; but it's been a while and it's like i'm discovering the most exciting spaces ever all over again!!! LOOK AT THEM C'MOOOON:

these are like 4 FUCKING PERSPECTIVES IN A SINGLE IMAGE!!!! LOOK:

from the same 'Grand Buildings' contest..... FUCK. THESE ARE FUCKING BEAUTIFUL. I NEED TO DRAW AGAAAAAIN

(KURFURSTENDAMM) look at this one okay, project vs reality okay? already we see all we need about the context while shining a light on the proposed building, but look at THIS

get ROTATED!!!

(heheh the tomigaya project is sooo beetlejuice. hehe anyway)

look at this perspective from the Vitra firehouse (a FUCKING classic)...... SWOOSH BABYYY!!!!!!!! i adore how selective these are... and how we are basically seeing curves and the thinnest of surfaces!! GO GOOGLE "VITRA FIREHOUSE" AND YOU'LL GET IT

(the tokyo forum) DECONSTRUCTING the project on the same image!! HELL YEAH

(starting from this one from the carnuntum museum project, it's actually from El Croquis 73) LOOK at this LANDSCAPE STUDY!!!!! FUCKING BONKERS.

this one isnt even a painting... ITS A FUCKING MODEL. CARDIFF OPERA BABYYYYY

a section of the proposed auditorium..... i adore those lights...... these funky perspectives are something else.

(now El Croquis 103) again, coexistence of multiple perspectives!! and look at this play of warm vs cold!!!!!! LOOK AT THIS RHYTHM PERMEATING THROUGH THE WHOLE THING

i think i will end this with the Landesgartenschau, one of my favorites too<3 look at the wonderful perspectives and then the real thing...... both amazing. i'd love to visit it one day :')

WAIT NO THIS IS MAXXI MUSEUM!!!!! ALSO AN ICON, A CLASSIC AND A FAVORITE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

anyway thats it forreal. damn!!! look at this imagination, man! i'm taking this as a wake-up call to just... go for it and go 'ART' once in a while! i do think responsibility with humanity should go first in architecture (urgently important in the times we live in...) but hey, i also think we should live surrounded by art and excitement and fun:)))) gah!!! now i wanna draw something this exciting!!!!

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Zaha Hadid by Allison Adams

Dame Zaha Hadid (1950-2016) was an Iraqi-born British architect, known for her radical Deconstructivist designs. In 2004 she became the first woman to be awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize, the highest honor of her field. In the early days of her career, she became known as a “paper architect,” meaning her designs were too avant-garde to move beyond the sketch phase and actually be built. This impression of her was heightened when her beautifully rendered designs—often in the form of exquisitely detailed colored paintings—were exhibited as works of art in major museums. Her major built works include the London’s Millennium Dome, the London Aquatics Centre (built for the 2012 Olympics) Michigan State University's Broad Art Museum in the US, the MAXXI Museum in Rome, and the Beijing Daxing International Airport in China. She was referred to as the "Queen of the curve", who "liberated architectural geometry, giving it a whole new expressive identity".

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OMG thank you I’m just so overwhelmed because there’s so much to see and eat and do in Italy.

Like I can’t even make it to Florence cinque tere or Venice on this trip.

I would loveeeee specific recs for Rome😭

ugh I know I feel like I could live a whole year in Italy and still wouldn't be enough

museums in Rome I recommend:

for Roman/ancient stuff: Trajan's Market, Baths of Diocletian/Caracalla, Palazzo Massimo,

for Modern stuff: Museum of Modern Art and the MAXXI, Palazzo Barberini

just beautiful architecture: Villa Farnesina, Tempietto, Chiostro di Bramante

Churches: Basilica of St. Lateran, Santa Maria Maggiore, San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, Basilica di Santo Stefano Rotondo

for shopping the area around Piazza del Popolo is really good, but the restaurants there a bit pricier. If you go to St. Peter's and you exit the square along the main road and you keep going straight and cross the piazza there's some really nice restaurants there and this tiramisu place tucked in a corner that is divineeee.

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maxxi

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Mr E opene up his store, and places some trinkets of the day on his table. Hopefully some customers could come quick. - Mr E James

Maxxie approaches the store - the museum worker looking over things carefully as he holds a little list in his hand: the top of the list is COOLER in big red letters and underlined.

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Ruins and Shelters

*Is there any genuine difference, in the long run? Maybe in Italy, which has had more long-run than most places.

via e-flux.

Demanio Marittimo.KM-278 is the marathon dedicated to architecture, arts, design and to the Adriatic dimension curated by Cristiana Colli and Pippo Ciorra. As every year, the XIV Edition takes place on a public beach in Marzocca di Senigallia on Friday, July 19, no stop from 6pm to 6am.

RUINS&SHELTERS is the theme of this year. On the one hand, it focuses on the accelerated production of ruins produced by wars, conflicts and catastrophes. On the other hand, it reminds us the need to find different forms of shelter/protection for increasingly fragile communities and individuals. 

The setting for the event is the result of a students’ competition hosted by SAAD, School of Architecture University of Camerino. Winning team for the OLTRE project are Fatijon Ademaj, Michele Forti, Qendron Mema, Gloria Seri, Elisa Valori.

Demanio opens with a tribute to this year’s Master of Territory, Guido Guidi. His work will be discussed with Simona Antonacci,Carlo Birrozzi and Antonello Frongia. Paolo Volponi’s 100 Years anniversary will be celebrated by lectures held by Massimo Raffaeli, Aldo Bonomi and Giovanni Russo, curator of an exhibition organized at the Ducal Palace of Urbino. 

An interdisciplinary focus will be dedicated to Kosovo with the curator and critic Alex Fisher, the Mayor of Pristina, Perparim Rama, the curators of Hangar e Autostrada Biennale Leutrim Fishekqiu and Vatra Abrashi, the artists Sislej Xhafa, Artan Hajrullahu, Blerta Hashani. 

Another experience in the field of cultural heritagewill be discussed by Andrea Viliani, Director of the Museum of Civilizations in Rome and curator of the international program Pompeii Commitment, and Davide Quadrio, Director of MAO (Museum of Oriental Art) in Turin.

RUINS&SHELTERS is also a concept that brings us to the fragile centrality of the Living Being, ethical and self-reflective when it comes to humans, “natural” for non-human beings. Sociologist and writer Marco Dotti will discuss the subject with architectural historian Francesco Benelli and composer David Monacchi.

2024 commemorates 150 years since the birth of Guglielmo Marconi. It was from the Colle dei Cappuccini in Ancona that on August 7, 1904 he initiated the legendary “radio” connection with Poldhu in Cornwall, 1750 kilometers away. Marconi’s legacy between will be the focus of the reflections of technological philosopher Cosimo Accoto with Andrea Borgnino and the artist Giovanni Gaggia.

The New York-based firm Lot-Ek will lecture about their work and offer a preview of the film dedicated to them by the director Tom Piper. Artists, designers, filmmakers will be oon stage. Gustav Düsing will talk about his award-winning project for the University of Braunschweig, introduced by Anna Sala of MVDR Foundation. Pietro Martino Federico Pizzi will present the Ceresè winery project, best building of the year, together with Grazzini, Tonazzini, Colombo, designers of the “Quintessenza” installation for the MAXXI. They will be introduced by Lorenza Baroncelli, director of MAXXI Architettura. 

Many installations, artworks, and public design experiments will be exhibited. A Villa Medici fellow artist, Alix Boillot, will present her work Grace. HPO, the Ferrara collective of young architects, will present the TTT installation. The London based collective Lemonot will present Talamo, a project created by the Marche company Noctis and produced by BASE for the last Milan Design Week, introduced by  Linda Di Pietro, director of BASE, and Lorenzo Petri. 

The frontiers of design will be explored by We are the Others (2024, 55 min), a film by Maria Cristina Didero and Francesca Molteni dedicated to the 40 years of activity of the Brazilian brothers Fernando and Humberto Campana. After the viewing, the authors will meet with Marva Griffin. Three shorter films, produced by the LINA fellows Ewa Effron, Laura Hurley, George Guedani in the frame of the MAXXI Architecture Film Lab will be introduced by the authors. 

The event is promoted by MAPPE magazine, Gagliardini Editore, Associazione Demanio Marittimo.Km-278 with the collaboration of MAXXI, the Municipality of Senigallia, the Marche Region and with the support of a wide network of businesses, institutions and associations.