Engineering and technology in an exhibition at MAXXI in Rome

On view through April 10, 2023 at MAXXI in Rome is the exhibition Technoscape. The Architecture of Engineering, curated by Pippo Ciorra, Maristella Casciato. The exhibition brings to the halls of the Roman museum the story of the relationship between structural engineering, whether vernacular or avant-garde, and the invasion of technology into our operating and living spaces.

The exhibition is organized around two sections that correspond to the two great universes, that of technological innovation and that of construction engineering. Along the first path, developed in collaboration with universities and research centers, we will discover installations and interactive pavilions, which will allow us to understand the role that scientific and technological sectors that we once would not have imagined having to approach architecture play today: from applied sciences to the environment, to “smart” devices for managing cities; from the obsession with big data to the recovery of vintage and low-tech assembly techniques. Along the second, organized by thematic areas, we find the work of great structural engineers from the postwar period to the present, highlighting the various approaches, symbolic buildings such as the Beaubourg or theSydney Opera House, and the most striking cases in which the task of form-finder falls completely on the structural designer.

For all information, you can visit the official MAXXI website.

Pictured: Alexander Graham Bell kissing his wife Mabel Hubbard Gardiner Bell, who is standing in a tetrahedral kite, Baddeck, Nova Scotia. Ph. credit: Prints and Photographs Division Washington, Library of Congress, LC-DIG-ds-06863

Engineering and technology in an exhibition at MAXXI in Rome

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