Victorinox Time to Care exhibitions includes pioneering innovation and sustainability as practiced by some of Switzerland’s — and the world’s — best designers and architects.

To promote the core values that have contributed to the 127 years of success and fame, Victorinox Swiss Army introduces “Time to Care”, a yearlong initiative celebrating “The Spirit of Innovation and Sustainability.” The centerpiece of the Swiss watchmaker’s BaselWorld stand will be a showcase exhibition of pioneering innovation and sustainability as practiced by some of Switzerland’s — and the world’s — best designers and architects.
The Time to Care exhibition at the Victorinox Swiss Army BaselWorld 2011 booth examines the innovative practices of Aurel Aebi (Atelier Oï); Martino d’Esposito (D’Esposito Gaillard); Andreas Vogler & Arturo Vittori (Architecture and Vision); Philip Loskant; Stefan Camenzind & Tanya Ruegg-Basheva (Camenzindevolution); Christian Müller (Christian Müller Architects); Patrick Lindon; Laurent Geninasca & Bernard Delefortrie (Geninasca Delefortrie SA); Roberto Loeb (Loeb Arquitetura); José Picciotto (Picciotto Architects); Lu Xiong and Ken Yeang.
Time to Care features intimate photos and video portraits of the above innovators and their most important contributions to sustainable design. After BaselWorld, the exhibition will travel to different countries.

Date: March 21 – 31, 2011
Location: BaselWorld, Basel, Switzerland
Links: http://timetocare.victorinox.com

Architecture and Vision completes the assembly of the sculpture ‘LaFenice’ under the interested eyes of Messina citizens. The stainless steel sculpture has been installed on Piazza della Memoria. Although still wrapped in protective material, the spirit of the sculpture reflecting the passing lights of the site in its geometrical shape can already be sensed, activating the formerly empty space.

At night the interactive illumination system adds a further modern metropolitan element to the square, attracting people.

The structure rises over four metres above the ground.

‘LaFenice’ will be officially inaugurated in near future. Date to be announced here.

Time: March 28 – 29, 2011
Location: Piazza della Memoria, Messina

“AtlasCoelestisZero” is a kinetic micro-gravity sculpture representing our Solar System. Designed by Architecture and Vision and manufactured by G&A, it will be unfolded in the International Space Station by the Italian Astronaut Roberto Vittori on the STS-134 mission, the last shuttle mission planned by NASA.
The sculpture is a dedication of Architecture and Vision to celebrate the spirit and culture of human exploration.

Time: April 19 – 29, 2011
Location: International Space Station, Low Earth Orbit

Links: www.architectureandvision.com/av/060.html

Arturo Vittori will be part of the keynote speakers at the ‘Arduino Day’ in Rome. Arduino Day is a day dedicated to promote to teachers, researchers, artists and students the Arduino platform. ‘Arduino Day’ will be the first day dedicated to the open source platform, made in Italy that is revolutionising the world of electronics. The aim of the event is therefore to promote the project, developed in Italy, showing the possibilities and potential. The initiative, organized by the association for science DiScienza was created with the aim of catalyzing the growing interest in the Arduino project, and direct it in a single day where you can learn about the different realities that use the platform approach and some applications.

Date: April 14 2011
Time: 11 am
Location: CNR Aula Marconi, Piazzale Aldo Moro, Roma, Italy
Links: http://www.discienza.org/arduino/

Andreas Vogler lectured at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture (CAFA) in Beijing, invited by Professor Lü Pinjing, Dean of architecture school at CAFA. The China Central Academy of Fine Arts is one of China’s most prestigious and renowned art academies.

Time: 15:00, March 25, 2011
Location: No 8, Huajiadi nanjie, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China
Link: http://www.cafa.edu.cn

The Architecture and Vision was invited by swissnex to show their traveling exhibition “FROM PYRAMIDS TO SPACECRAFT” during the “2011 Shanghai International Science & Art Exhibition” organized by the Shanghai Association for Science and Technology (SAST). More than 50,000 visitors are expected for the event.

Date: May 13 – 22, 2011
Location: Shanghai, China

Links:
Shanghai Association for Science and Technology (SAST)
swissnex China

The Architecture and Vision exhibition “From Pyramids to Spacecraft” opened on Tuesday March 22, 2011 at the Beihang Art Gallery with significant attendance of Chinese newspapers, magazine press and TV. The opening speeches were given by the President of Beihang University Mr. Huai Jinpeng and the Ambassador of Switzerland Mr. Blaise Godet. Thereafter, Arturo Vittori and Andreas Vogler presented the exhibition and their projects.

The exhibition will be featured from March 20 – 31, 2011 at the Beihang Art Gallery in Beijing, China.
The Beihang Art Gallery is part of the campus of the Beijing UNiversity of Aeronautics and Astronautics BUAA.

Time: March 21 – 31, 2011
Location: Beihang Art Gallery, Beijing, China

Links:
BUAA
Art China
Science and Technology Daily
People.com.cn
Inhua News Agency

The competition winning project “LaFenice”, the “Phoenix”, will be officially presented to the city and to the press by architect Arturo Vittori director of Architecture and Vision and with the presence of Mr. Giuseppe Buzzanca, Maire of Messina. The event takes place at the Palazzo della Cultura “Antonello da Messina”, viale Boccetta. The public sculpture representing the memory of the city, is made of stainless steel and glass and has a height of 4,10 meter. The highly polished exterior reflects the surrounding of the city. It is currently under construction and will be installed in Piazza della Memoria in few weeks.

Title: “LaFenice”
Day: Monday 7th March 2011, 10:30 am
Location: Palazzo della Cultura “Antonello da Messina”, viale Boccetta, Messina

Arturo Vittori has been invited to lecture about Architecture and Vision recent projects at the “Circolo del Tennis e della Vela” of Messina, Sicily.

Title: “From Pyramids to Spacecraft”
Time: Wednesday 23th February, 6:00pm
Location: Circolo del Tennis e della Vela – Viale della Libertà 64, Messina, Sicily

Architecture and Vision’s proposal for the Moon Capital competition has been selected as part of an exhibition which will be on display at the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, February – April 2011.

Time: February 1, 2011 – March 31, 2011
Location: NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas