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Super
City
CCA |
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Montreal,
PQ, Canada
Through 20 November 2005
If you've ever dreamt
that all of those building toys (like
Legos) would end up in a museum one day,
then it looks like your dreams may have
finally come true
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Czech
Glass
Corning
Museum of Glass |
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Corning,
New York, United States
Through 27 November 2005
If you naturally
don't think of Czechs
when you think of glass then you should
probably see this. Broken up into three
distinct periods- Bohemian Glass, Post
WW2 (Design in an Age of Adversity) and
Modern Czech Glass.
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Tools
of the Imagination
National Building Museum |
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Washington,
DC , United States
Through 10 October 2005
An exhibit about
what architects and designers use to create
drawings, from cad software to all of
the yellow tracing paper you could ever
hope for.
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Going
Going Gone
Museum
of Art |
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Ft
Lauderdale, Florida,
United States
Through 6 November 2005
A tribute or warning
(depending on your level of optimism)
about the future of mid Century Modernism
and specifically of the more catchy term
MiMo (Miami
Modernism)
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1945:
Architecture Creativity and Crisis
Art Institute of Chicago |
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Chicago,
Illinois ,
United States
Through 8 January 2006
A pivotal time in
Chicago (and everywhere actually), when
it was time to stop worrying about the
end of the world as they knew it and time
to suddenly start thinking about the future.
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to exhibition site) |
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The
Destruction of Lower Manhattan
Museum
of the City of New York |
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New
York City, United States
Through
18 September 2005
No, not that destruction
of Lower Manhattan. This exhibition shows
photos taken in 1966 and 1967, including
all of the Radio Row buildings that were
demolished to make way for the World Trade
Center's brand new super block.
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The
Initiated Eye
The Octagon |
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Washington,
DC , United
States
Through 31 December 2005
Imagine that there
was a secret society, one whose members
(ok, only some of its members) went on
to found the United States while others
helped build its capitol city. Now call
those secret people freemasons, pull a
bunch of artifacts together and you have
yourself a show.
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to exhibition site) |
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Design
Does Not Equal Art
Aspen
Art Museumr |
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Aspen,
Colorado ,
United States
Through 2 October, 2005
This provocatively
titled show features design work by artists
not know for their design work, including
Sol LeWitt, Donald Judd and James Turrell.
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Dream
of Tower
Dansk
Arkitektur Center |
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Copenhagen,
Denmark
Through October 2005
Even
the Danes love tall buildings. This exhibition
includes a lot of the usual suspects (St
Mary's Axe, Taipei 101, Daniel Libeskind's
Freedom Tower) with models all at the
same scale, a rare chance to imagine that
New York and Taiwan are a little closer
than they really are.
(go
to exhibition site)
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Lebbeus
Woods - System Vienna
MAK
Center |
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Vienna,
Austria
Through 16 October 2005
You just
know it's going to be fun when the founder
of the Research Institute for Experimental
Architecture starts to really think
about Vienna.
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Ways
of Living
Kettles
Yard |
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Cambridge,
United Kingdom
Through 20 November 2005
It's
art, architecture and design all at the
same time as Kettles Yard lets
four artists/architects/designers loose
for an exhibition.
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A
Royal Exhibition
NAI |
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Rotterdam, Netherlands
Through 23 October 2005
2005 marks the 25th
anniversary of Queen Beatrix, and as part
of that celebration the NAI will be presenting
some of the best architecture of the last
25 years in a show where each architect
is allowed to exhibit only one object..
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Houses
of the Future
Sydney Olympic Park |
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Sydney,
Australia
Through 30 October 2005
A free exhibit (free
is always good) that showcases six futuristic
ideas for housing featuring six different
materials: timber, glass, concrete, clay,
steel and cardboard.
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