Reinventing Architecture 1953–1978
“This Was Tomorrow”
SAM Swiss Architecture Museum
Steinberg 7, CH-4051 Basel
Visit “Reinventing Architecture 1953-1978”
panoramah!® invites you to visit “This Was Tomorrow”. This exhibition by the Drawing Matter collection about architectural imagination, the power, processes, poetics of creation and invention. Curated by Markus Lähteenmäki and Nicholas Olsberg in cooperation with Hubertus Adam. The exhibition presents a series of twelve episodes focused on the period from 1953 to 1978, reinventing architecture.
“This Was Tomorrow” includes over 250 drawings, models and printed works, created by the new generation of designers coming of age in the post-war years and those of the previous generation who were rethinking the foundations of their practice. Presenting the architectural sketch and drawing as the essential vehicle for conceiving, evolving and communicating the new ideas of that period, the exhibition contains works from thirteen architects, artists and practices from the Czech Republic, Switzerland, Great Britain, Austria, the Netherlands, Italy, United States, Portugal and Estonia, working around Europe, United States and Asia.
Architectural Sketches & Drawings
from architects, artists & practices
- Aldo Rossi
- Álvaro Siza
- Buckminster Fuller
- Constant
- Hans Hollein & Walter Pichler
- John Hejduk
- Le Corbusier
- Louis Kahn
- Michael Webb
- Stirling and Gowan
- Superstudio
- Ugo La Pietra