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Through September 2
Le Corbusier: The Art of Architecture
Netherlands Architecture Institute; Rotterdam
Netherlands Architecture Institute joins with Vitra Design Museum and Royal Institute of British Architects to present this international retrospective. Goal is to present a decidedly contemporary view of Le Corbusier's work by incorporating the results of recent scholarly research, while also providing a comprehensive introduction to the subject for younger generations.
Opened May 26. Will be at Vitra Design Museum September 29, 2007 to February 10, 2008.

Through September 16
MyHome: Seven Experiments for Contemporary Living
Interventions by Jurgen Bey, Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, Fernando & Humberto Campana, Hella Jongerius, Greg Lynn, Jürgen Mayer H., and Jerszy Seymour
Vitra Design Museum; Weil Am Rhein, Germany Gives internationally renowned designers of a younger generation the opportunity to realize their individual visions. They occupy the museum with future-oriented installations that simultaneously furnish a set of unique statements on current-day design.
Opened June 14.

Through September 30
New Work: Felix Schramm
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; San Francisco
German artist Felix Schramm creates the illusion of architecture gone awry. Made from drywall, paint, steel frames, and wood, his site-specific installations resemble the aftermath of disaster inside the gallery, where the delineations between the work and the institution's architecture are difficult to discern.
Opened June 29.

Through October 3
Ecology. Design, Synergy; Behnisch Architekten + Transsolar ClimateEngineering
Harvard GSD; Cambridge, Massachusetts

Exhibits attempts to address widespread and misleading quantitative interpretation of the term "sustainability"
Opened August 22.

Through October 3
Selected Thesis Exhibition  
SCI-Arc; Los Angeles
        
Graduate thesis reflects SCI-Arc’s rigorous architectural education that is responsive to cultural change, promotes architectural experimentation and creative and academic freedom, and supports a fluid relationship between education and practice.
Opened September 21.

Through October 8
Frank Lloyd Wright and the House Beautiful        
Portland Museum of Art; Portland, Maine  
         
Features 100 objects, including furniture, metalwork, textiles and drawings.
Opened June 28.

Through October 14
Campana Brothers in the Garden                    
Victoria & Albert Museum; London 
                 
Brazilian designers Fernando and Humberto Campana have transformed the John Madejski Garden with an installation exploring the use of bamboo, a material often featured in their work. The installation also includes a new outdoor edition of their ‘Vitoria Regia’ seats, inspired by the giant water lilies found in the Amazon.
Opened July 21.

Through October 21
Frontiers of Architecture: Cecil Balmond          
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art; Humlebaek, Denmark

Part of a series looking at significant phenomena influencing architecture. The choice of Cecil Balmond as the pivotal figure in the first of these exhibitions turns the focus on the constructional and aesthetic principles underlying architecture, thus offering the visitor a sneak preview of the latest architectural visions.
Opened June 22.

Through October 21
Robert Maria Stieg: Caution! Furniture Matters
MAK; Vienna  
               
Stieg, who died in 1984, was an innovative Austrian furniture designer during the late '70s and early '80s. Exhibit shows his extraordinary experiments with furniture, as well as the high-quality upholstered furniture with which he drew on the long tradition of fine Viennese upholstery.
Opened May 30.

Through October 21
A Better World, Another Power
Netherlands Architecture Institute; Rotterdam
     
Exhibit is about groups whose work involves consultative initiatives, spontaneous creativity and activism that are "like a fresh breeze blowing through the urban planning world." Held in collaboration with the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, which this year was themed, “Power – Producing the Contemporary City.”
Opened May 24.

Through October 27
New Practices London
Center for Architecture; NYC

A selection of London's best young practices. Exhibit will feature 6a Architects, AOC, Carmody Groarke, DRDH architects, Ullmayer Sylvester and Witherford Watson Mann. Organized by AIA New York Chapter's Center for Architecture and The Architecture Foundation in London.
Opens August 20.

Through October 28
Have a Seat! The Beylerian Collection of Small Chairs             
Museum of Art & Design; NYC
 
Features over 350 miniature chairs collected from around the world, ranging from the functional, used by manufacturers for promotion, to the fantastical, created by artists unfettered by the need for actual use.
Opened June 28.

Through October 28
Josef Hoffman, Adolf Loos: Ornament and Tradition
MAK; Vienna
                 
Furniture and glass objects, drawings, photos, and texts by and about the two influential architects. Exhibit shows points of convergence and differences in their practical design work and theoretical reflection.
Opened June 3.

Through October 28
Xefirotarch                 
The Art Institute of Chicago; Chicago  
           
Since its founding in 2001, Hernan Diaz Alonso's LA-based architectural firm, Xefirotarch, has attracted attention for its imaginative designs. Exhibit features design maquettes, models, digital animations, and fiberglass construction coated in Ferrari red paint.
Opened July 11.

Through October 28
David Adjaye: Making Public Buildings             
Studio Museum Harlem; NYC 
  
David Adjaye of Adjaye/Associates, architect of the Idea Store, was born in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, to Ghanaian diplomats. Since completing his studies at the Royal College of Art in 1993, the London-based architect and theorist has built or won ten public commissions, at an age before many architects have built a single structure.
Opened July 18.

Through October 28
New York Rises
Museum of the City of New York; NYC

Eugene de Salignac (1861-1943) was a photographer for the New York City Department of Bridges/Plant and Structures for the first three decades of the 20th century. His images of bridges, buildings, roads and subways document the emergence of the modern city.
Opened May 4.

Through October 28
American Streamlined Design: The World of Tomorrow
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; Montreal

In the '30s and '40s, streamlining came to represent modernity, progress, efficiency, cleanliness and glamour. Streamlined consumer goods ranging from the household vacuum cleaner to the family radio, which were manufactured with the latest industrial materials: aluminum, chromium-plated metal and plastics. Exhibit examines the impact of the streamlined style on American life.
Opened May 17. Will travel through 2009 to the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts in Alabama, the Chicago History Museum and the Wolfsonian-Florida International University Museum in Miami.
Opened May 17.

Through October 29
Lost Vanguard: Soviet Modernist Architecture, 1922 to 1932
MoMA, Philip Johnson Architecture and Design Galleries; NYC

Contemporary photographs of avant-garde structures built in the former Soviet Union in the 1920s and early 1930s.
Opened July 18.

Long-term
Cityscapes Revealed: Highlights from the Collection
National Building Museum; Washington, D.C
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Explores quintessential American, 20th-century buildings, from center-city mansions to main street storefronts and sleek downtown skyscrapers. First retrospective exhibit of the museum’s collection.
Opened December 3, 2005.

 

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