LISTINGS: JULY 09

 

Matthew Darbyshire: Funhouse
Everything you would expect from a funhouse but with questioning: regeneration, people’s palace or house of horrors? Borrowed ‘architectural’ elements alongside wobbly mirrors and plastic ball pits.
> To 12 July
Hayward Gallery Project Space, South Bank Centre, Belvedere Road, London SE1 8XX
www.haywardgallery.org.uk

The Furniture of Chandigarh
Five year project by the private owner of this collection of hand-crafted furniture design by Le Corbusier and cousin Pierre Jeanneret. Monumental pieces from the Capitol Complex as well as more utilitarian objects.
> To 12 July
P3, 35 Marylebone Road, London NW1
www.p3exhibitions.com

Material Intelligence
Karla Black’s curtain of cellophane, sellotape, moisturiser, Cif cream, nail varnish and more takes pride of place at this show of eight contemporary artists working with ‘democratic’ materials.
> 12 July
Kettle’s Yard, Castle Street, Cambridge CB3 0AQ
www.kettlesyard.co.uk

Baroque 1620-1800
Two hundred opulent objects from architecture to silver to textiles. Particular examination of baroque style in public city squares, St Peter’s Basilica in Rome and the Palace of Versailles. Prepare to be overwhelmed.
> To 19 July
V&A South Kensington, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 2RL
www.vam.ac.uk

Fascism in Ruins
Photographer Dan Dubowitz extends his interest in forgotten spaces to study abandoned fascist buildings in northern Italy, particularly fascist holiday camps.
> To 26 July
Fermynwoods Contemporary Art, The Water Tower, Benefield Road, Brigstock, Kettering NN14 3JA
www.fermynwoods.co.uk

Summer Exhibition
Curated by Will Alsop, this year’s model-rich architecture room is a good cross section of architects and sculptors cheek by jowl.
> To 16 August
Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BD
Will Alsop gives RIBA Journal a tour of the architecture room, see here.

The Future has Arrived: Architecture in a Sustainable World
Where is sustainability taking architecture? How are its concerns transforming design and how do other disciplines and sciences feed into this?
> To 4 October
Louisiana, DK-3050 Humlebæk, Denmark
www.louisiana.dk

Radical Nature
Land art, experimental architecture and utopianism. Puts the obvious architectural names (Buckminster Fuller, Ant Farm, Diller Scofidio + Renfro) into context with Robert Smithson, Josef Beuys, Anya Gallaccio and others.
> To 18 October
Barbican Art Gallery, Silk Street, London EC2Y 8DS
www.barbican.org.uk

Pattern Recognition
Patterns in search of a big idea –  this exhibition is introduced by the idea that global anxieties are reflected in the search for predictability in patterns.
Cross-disciplinary mixture of exhibits, from jewellery to portraits to urban theory.
> 24 October
City Gallery, 90 Granby Street, Leicester, LE1 1DJ
www.leicester.gov.uk/citygallery

Robin Hood Gardens
Exhibition organised by Twentieth Century Society on the much-debated Smithson housing. With photographs from Ioana Marinescu and documentary by Martin Ginestie.
> 7 July to 26 August
Gallery 2, RIBA, 66 Portland Place, London, W1N 4AD
www.architecture.com

Valerio Olgiati
Imagine a stark cube in a Swiss landscape and you have summoned up Olgiati’s early work. Insights into his design process through this exhibition with its series of 1:33 models, photographs and renderings, alongside some of the images that have inspired him.
> 10 July to 26 August
Gallery 1, RIBA, 66 Portland Place, London, W1N 4AD
www.architecture.com

Housing Design Awards
This years’ crop of commended and winning entries is likely to include work by Proctor & Matthews among others.
> 16 July to 12 September
RIBA, 66 Portland Place, London, W1N 4AD
www.architecture.com

RIBAJ RECOMMENDS…

IMMAGINI E MEMORIA
Rome at a turning point captured by British Dominican Father Peter Paul Mackay. Based in the city at the turn of the 19th century, he was fascinated by the city’s architecture and archaeology in a place that was changing from a rural town with vineyards and market gardens to an industrial city of factories and building sites.
> To 12 September
Sir John Soane’s Museum, 13 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London WC2A 3BP
www.soane.org

DON’T MISS…

REMEMBERING JAN KAPLICKY
Refugee from the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia Kaplicky worked for Lasdun, Rogers and Foster before Future Systems started to make some
of its futuristic ideas concrete, coming to prominence with the media stand at Lord’s Cricket Ground in 1999, then Selfridges in Birmingham (above). This retrospective plays tribute to Kaplicky who died earlier this year.
> 1 July to 1 November
Design Museum,
Shad Thames,
London SE1 2YD
www.designmuseum.org