On Monday, May 14,  2012,  Architecture and Vision will launch a suborbital ‘art-craft’ from Addis Abeba with their ‘AtlasCoelestisZeroG‘ sculpture as a symbolic gesture representing the connection between Ethiopia–the cradle of humanity–and the Universe. The sculpture will be suspended from a weather balloon to be launched from the National Meteorological Agency near Bole Airport. A mounted camera will capture HD footage of the sculpture with planet Earth as backdrop. The project is made possible with support of the Italian Cultural Institute of Addis Abeba, ProHelvetia, and the National Meteorological Agency of Ethiopia.

Location: National Meteorological Agency, Bole Road, Addis Abeba, Ethiopia
Date: May 14, 2012
Time: 10:00 am

Links:
National Meteorological Agency
‘AtlasCoelestisZeroG’

Architecture and Vision’s traveling exhibition “From Pyramids to Spacecraft” opened on May 10 and will be on display from May 11 – 20, 2012 at the Italian Cultural Institute in Addis Abeba. The exhibition opening and the lecture by Arturo Vittori and Andreas Vogler was attended by more than 70 people, including representatives of the Italian and Swiss embassies. The traveling exhibition is features selected projects by the design studio Architecture and Vision, founded by Italian architect Arturo Vittori and Swiss architect Andreas Vogler with offices in Munich, Germany and Bomarzo, Italy. Vittori and Vogler have worked together since 2003 and received a number of important international recognitions. In 2006, their prototype for a tent, ‘DesertSeal’ (2004), became part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Vittori and Vogler were named Modern-day Leonardos in the same year by the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago for the exhibition “Leonardo da Vinci: Man, Inventor, Genius.” They share a keen interest in technology and the endless beauty of the world. They have both worked in the aerospace field and this challenges the way they think about life on Earth.

Dates: May 11 – 20, 2012
Time: Reception, May 10, 2012, 6.30 pm
Location: Art Gallery, Italian Cultural Institute Addis Ababa, Belay Zelleke Street, Addis Abeba, Ethiopia

Links:
Italian Cutural Institute Addis Abeba

‘DesertSeal’ is an iconic design by AV, demonstrating their practice of combining cutting-edge technology with sustainable thinking to create new solutions for the future. The one-person, light-weight, inflatable tent takes advantage of the physical properties of hot-arid environments to cool itself. The characteristic vertical shape allows cool air to be pulled inside from the top of the tent by means of a small solar-powered fan. The aluminum coated shell also helps to reflect the heat of the day.

Dates: March 2, 2012 – January 28, 2013
Location: Architecture and Design Galleries, The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), 11 West 53 Street New York, NY 10019

Links:
MoMA
‘Desert Seal’

Architecture and Vision’s traveling exhibition ‘From Pyramids to Spacecraft’ will be on view from April 10 – 22, 2012 at the Italian Cultural Institute in Addis Abeba, Ethiopia. The traveling exhibition features selected projects by the design studio Architecture and Vision, founded by Italian architect Arturo Vittori and Swiss architect Andreas Vogler with offices in Munich, Germany and Bomarzo, Italy. Vittori and Vogler have been working together since 2003 and received a number of important international recognitions. In 2006, their prototype for a tent, ‘DesertSeal’ (2004), became part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Vittori and Vogler were named Modern-day Leonardos in the same year by the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago for the exhibition “Leonardo da Vinci: Man, Inventor, Genius.” They share a keen interest in technology and the endless beauty of the world. They have both worked in the aerospace field and this challenges the way they think about life on Earth. Arturo Vittori and Andreas Vogler will open the exhibition on Thursday, May 10, 2012, 6:30 pm.

Dates: May 10 – 22, 2012
Time: Opening, Thursday, May 1o, 2012, 6:30 pm
Location: Italian Cultural Institute, Belay Zelleke Street, Addis Abeba, Ethiopia

Links:
Italian Cutural Institute Addis Abeba

The Architecture and Vision exhibition ‘From Pyramids to Spacecraft’ was opened by Arturo Vittori and Andreas Vogler at the Robert A. Deshon and Karl J. Schlachter Library for Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning (DAAP) of the University of Cincinnati, Ohio USA on April 20, 2012 The traveling exhibition is displaying selected projects by the design studio Architecture and Vision, founded by Italian architect Arturo Vittori and Swiss architect Andreas Vogler with offices in Munich, Germany and Bomarzo, Italy. Vittori and Vogler have been working together since 2003 and received a number of important international recognitions. In 2006, their prototype for a tent, DesertSeal (2004), became part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Vittori and Vogler were named Modern-day Leonardos in the same year by the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago for the exposition Leonardo da Vinci: Man, Inventor, Genius. They share a keen interest in technology and the endless beauty of the world. They have both been working in the aerospace field and this challenges the way they think about life on Earth.

Duration: April 20 – May 15, 2012
Location: DAAP Library, Room 5401, 5480 Aronoff Center for Design and Art, University of Cincinnati, 342 Clifton Blvd., Cincinnati, OH 45221, USA
Links: http://www.libraries.uc.edu/liblog/2012/04/10/from-pyramids-to-spacecraft/
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Arturo Vittori and Andreas Vogler inaugurated the exhibition ‘AtlasCoelestisZeroG’ at the Italian Cultural Institute, 814 Montgomery Street, San Francisco. The kinetic sculpture was flying with the last flight of the space shuttle Endeavor to the International Space Station ISS in May last year. The sculpture was presented the first time in a dedicated exhibition in the charming capital of Silicon Valley.

Duration: April 17 – May 4, 2012
Location: Italian Cultural Institute, 814 Montgomery Street, San Francisco, CA, USA
Links: Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco

Arturo Vittori and Andreas Vogler will present and launch their newly edited book ‘Architecture and Vision: From Pyramids to Spacecraft’ at the Tremont Studio of Giancarlo Calicchlia in Cleveland on April 25, 2012. The book shows on 288 pages a stunning selection of the visionary projects of this lively studio with many full colour and double-fold images. It features a hard cover with exclusive silver print. Arturo Vittori and Andreas Vogler will be available after their talk to sign copies.

Please RSVP by April23 by email to serena.scaiola@att.net Organized

Organized by: Giancarlo Calicchia and the Consulate of Italy in Detroit
Time: Wednesday, April 24, 2012, 5 pm
Location: Giancarlo Calicchlia Tremont Studio, 722. Literary Road Cleveland, OH 44113, USA

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Arturo Vittori and Andreas Vogler will lecture at ‘The Sculpture Center’ in Cleveland next 25th April.

The Sculpture Center and the Italian Consulate invite you to a talk by the Italian and Swiss architects Arturo Vittori and Andreas Vogler founders of the studio Architecture and Vision. The architecture and design practice specializes in aerospace, architecture and art and the crossovers of these fields. The studio recently has been crossing borders into the sculpture field with the 30m high portable tower of the ‘Machina di Santa Rosa di Viterbo’, The ‘AtlasCoelestis’ installation at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the public sculpture ‘LaFenice’ in Messina, Sicily. On the cutting edge of space art is their kinetic sculpture ‘AtlasCoelestisZeroG’, created specifically for microgravity environments, which was carried into space on NASA’s final mission of the space shuttle Endeavor and inaugurated on the International Space Station in May 2011. Their very popular traveling exhibition, ‘Architecture and Vision: from Pyramids to Spacecraft’, was shown in Cleveland’s Great Lakes Science Center last winter and is on view April 20-May 15, 2012, at the University of Cincinnati’s College of DAAP.
After the talk in the Euclid Avenue Building Bay 3, join Arturo Vittori and Andreas Vogler for an informal reception and test drive one of five Cinquecento Fiats, courtesy of FIAT of Strongsville, that will be on display in our parking lot.
Reservations by phone or email to The Sculpture Center are required.

Time: Wednesday, April 25, 2012, 6 pm
Location: Euclid Avenue Building of The Sculpture Center, 1834 E. 123rd Street, Cleveland, Ohio 44106
info@sculpturecenter.org
Tel. 216.229.6527

Architecture and Vision published a complete re-edition of its book “From Pyramids to Spacecraft”, first published in 2009. The book has now 292 pages, more than double as before and shows a stunning selection of projects with many full colour and double-fold images, showing the visionary projects of this lively studio. It further features a hard cover with exclusive silver print and is available for purchase now.

 www.architectureandvision.com

The traveling exhibition “From Pyramids to Spacecraft” will be shown at the Robert A. Deshon and Karl J. Schlachter Library for Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning (DAAP) of the University of Cincinnati, Ohio. The exhibit features selected projects by the design studio Architecture and Vision, founded by Italian architect Arturo Vittori and Swiss architect Andreas Vogler, with offices in Munich, Germany and Bomarzo, Italy.

Vittori and Vogler have worked together since 2003 and have received numerous important international recognitions. In 2006, their prototype for an extreme-environment tent, ‘DesertSeal’ (2004), became part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Vittori and Vogler were named Modern-day Leonardos in the same year by the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago for the exhibit “Leonardo da Vinci: Man, Inventor, Genius.” They have both worked in the aerospace field and this challenges the way they think about life on Earth. They share a keen interest in technology and the endless beauty of the world.

Arturo Vittori and Andreas Vogler will open the exhibition on Friday, April 20, at 5 pm.

Date: April 20 – June 15, 2012
Opening time: Friday, April 20, 2012, 5 pm
Location: DAAP Library, Room 5401, 5480 Aronoff Center for Design and Art, University of Cincinnati, 342 Clifton Blvd., Cincinnati, OH 45221, USA

Links:
University of Cincinnati Libraries