until Sunday September 21 2025
MAXXI
T : +39 06 3201954
Via Guido Reni, 4A
00196 Rome
Italy
The exhibition offers a compelling exploration of the ongoing transformations within the world of architecture and the tools used to create, represent and communicate it. In the beginning, there was the drawing: an original act capable of synthesising the relationship between space, function and structure in a single gesture, an indispensable tool for any spatial thought. Then, from the final decades of the last century, we witnessed the rise of digital techniques, practices borrowed from art, exercises in political activism and hands-on participatory forms that shape the spaces we inhabit, giving less importance to “beautiful drawings”. Works by significant figures accompany visitors on a journey through the 20th and 21st centuries. They illustrate how the ability to represent and define space, once the exclusive domain of drawing, has now expanded to include a world of digital simulations, collages, videos, performances, textiles, and more. These new representational forms can profoundly reshape the future of architecture and spatial disciplines.
