MercuryHouseOne, Venice, San Servolo Island, September 2, 2009

Architecture and Vision’s ‘MercuryHouseOne’, an architectural platform for modern life, was officially unveiled to the public on San Servolo Island in context of the 53rd Biennale of Arts in Venice, for the opening ceremony of the Festival del Cinema.

The pavilion, which is realized with finest Carrara marble was presented by client and contractor Gualtiero Vanelli from GVM. After attracting highest interest of the public, the mobile pavilion is scheduled for several events around the world.

“FioredelCielo”, Exhibition
Bomarzo, Palazzo Orsini, 4-7 September 2009

After the celebration of St. Rose, on September 3, an exhibition devoted to the project of “FioredelCielo” will open in Bomarzo.

In the wonderful setting of Palazzo Orsini, the exhibition will offer to the public a closer look, behind the scenes, at the whole process through which “FioredelCielo” was conceived and developed.
Drawings, renderings, prototypes, models as well as videos will be on show.
The exhibition will be inaugurated on September 4, at 6 pm.

“If someone loves a flower, of which just one single blossom grows in all the millions and millions of stars, it is enough to make him happy just to look at the stars.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Architecture and Vision’s project FioredelCielo will be unveiled on night of September 3rd, in the city of Viterbo, Italy, during the celebration of the city’s patron Santa Rosa.

The “tower” will be carried by 100 men, through the narrow streets of the medieval town, that will be livened up with the light of hundreds of candle flames and with falling rose petals.
After the event, the Pope will come to see the FioredelCielo on September 6, 2009.

‘MercuryHouseOne’ by Architecture and Vision will be presented on September 2, 2009,during the 53rd Art Exhibition, Biennale of Venice, on San Servolo island.

‘MercuryHouseOne’ is a mobile lounge designed for a modern experience of our natural and urban environments. Drawing inspiration from nature, its shape recalls the beauty and perfection of a water drop. The advanced cabin is realized by the Italian company GVM of Gualtiero Vanelli in Carrara.

The exterior shell is a double curve shape made out of ultralight white Carrara marble.
The interior layout can be set up in a range of configurations to accommodate different uses and needs. The latest lighting, video, and sound technologies is used in the habitat in order to create a unique experience inside. The unit is powered by solar cells and is energetically autonomous.

On September 2, during the 53rd Art Exhibition, Biennale of Venice, MercuryHouseOne will be presented on the island of San Servolo in the wonderful scenery of the Venetian lagoon.Representatives of Italian and International cultural, political and economic institutions willattend the event.

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AV is one of five architecture firms worldwide invited to participate in Calculation and Substance, an exhibition associated with the 2009 ACADIA conference, hosted by the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) Department of Architecture, Interior Architecture and Designed Objects (AIADO).ACADIA is the Association for Computer Aided Design In Architecture, a group dedicated to digital computation and parametric design in the field of architecture. Each of the chosen participants will produce a piece for exhibition in SAIC’s Sullivan Gallery located in Luis Sullivan’s most influential building. Opening in late September, the exhibit will showcase the cutting edge technologies of parametric and algorithmic design.AV’s proposal draws inspiration from Gaileo’s invention of the telescope 400 years ago and its impact on our understanding of the universe.This project explores how design innovation today may shape our perception of the world in the future.AV is working with students from SAIC and other collaborators to design and fabricate the project. 

Image: Geocentric representation of the solar system, according to the Ptolemaic system, as it was conceived before Galileo’s telescope (source: Scenographia systematis mvndani Ptolemaici, Amsterdam, 1660)

California State Polytechnic University Pomona

College of Environmental Design
May 8, 2009, 12pm

Andreas Vogler will give a speech at the College of Environmental Design of the California State Polytechnic University Pomona.

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Bauhaus to Green Haus
Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, Morton Auditorium
Thursday, April 2, 2009, 6:00pm

Arturo Vittori is the first speaker at the Bauhaus to Green Haus lecture series, which brings to Chicago European architects and designers who draw on the Bauhaus tradition and address today’s sustainability challenges.

Bauhaus to Green Haus is organized by the Goethe-Institut Chicago and:
the Austrian Consulate General in Chicago, the Consulate General of Italy in Chicago, the Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the Consulate General of Switzerland, the Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Pro Helvetia, and Think Swiss. It is also part of “Living Modern Chicago,” a collaboration of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Mies van der Rohe Society/Illinois Institute of Technology.

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The exhibition Architecture and Vision | from Pyramids to Spacecraft opened in Chicago at the Italian Cultural Institute, on March 11 (to March 24).