“Where Architects Live” is an exhibition that tells the story of the homes and private spaces of eight of the world’s foremost architects in the form of a great 1,600 m2 multimedia installation. Spaces that can be strolled through, like a great promenade architecturale, in the contemporary domestic landscape.
Chipperfield, photo by Alessandro Russotti
Conceived as a cultural accompaniment to the Salone del Mobile trade fair and featuring an innovative take on the theme of the home and inhabiting, the exhibition is produced by Cosmit and was on show in Pavilion 9 at the Rho Milan Fairgrounds – from 8th to 13th April.
Allestimento ©Davide Pizzigoni
Cosmit President, Claudio Luti, had this to say: “One of the remits of the Salone del Mobile is to build culture, sparking experiences and suggestions that become benchmarks for the home furnishing sector, which lies at the very heart of the Salone del Mobile. “Where Architects Live” is an exhibition that also serves to valorise our manufacturers – they too innovate and build culture through production, thanks to a blend of unique and characteristic factors such as the ability to excel in manufacturing combined with the ability to convert the creative ideas of international designers into objects and projects that become benchmarks for home furnishing all over the world”.
Marcio Kogan, photo by Alessandro Russotti
Conceived and curated by Francesca Molteni and Davide Pizzigoni, “Where Architects Live” chronicles an exploration/incursion into the homes of Shigeru Ban, who has just won the 2014 Pritzker Prize, Mario Bellini, David Chipperfield, Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas, Zaha Hadid, Marcio Kogan, Daniel Libeskind and Studio Mumbai/Bijoy Jain.
Shigeru Ban, photo by Alessandro Russotti
Eight signed interiors dialogue amongst themselves and with the cities, international metropolises undergoing radical metamorphosis: Tokyo, Milan, Berlin, Paris, London, Sao Paolo, New York and Mumbai.
Mario Bellini, photo by Alessandro Russotti
An opportunity to engage with the many forms of living at different latitudes – through the building of private stories, stories of spaces and objects, previously unseen images and hidden clues – that the curators have turned into videos, sounds, reconstructions of places and details.
Zaha Haddid, photo by Alessandro Russotti
Shigeru Ban’s trees and the house built around Hanegi Forest; Mario Bellini’s staircase/bookcase, to be negotiated with several pauses; David Chipperfield’s concrete block in Berlin’s Mitte district; Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas’s warriors that await the return of their owners along with Jean Prouvé; Zaha Hadid’s dynamism in the purity of an impluvium; Marcio Kogan’s cinemascope window; Daniel Libeskind’s peripatetic journey to Ground Zero; Studio Mumbai/Bijoy Jain’s reading room, where the lights and shadows of Indian nature can be studied.
Liebeskind, photo by Alessandro Russotti
Fuksas, photo by Alessandro Russotti
