Ljubljana, Slovenia
22nd Biennial of Industrial Design
October 7 to November 7
An international design exhibition of selected competition entries highlighting current trends in contemporary design. On display are 132 works from 24 countries that successfully addressed the call for innovative products in the realms of service design and information design.
Architecture Museum of Ljubljana
Pot na Fužine 2
+01 540 97 98
London
Urban Africa: A photographic journey by David Adjaye
March 31 to September 5
Architect David Adjaye exhibits personal photographs from his trip to Africa where he studied key cities in an effort to record new patterns of urbanism.
Design Museum
28 Shad Thames
+44 0870 833 9955
Sustainable Futures - Can Design Make a Difference?
March 31 to September 5
In association with PUMA.Creative, this exhibition showcases successful sustainable design, as well as the infrastructure that such forward-looking products require.
Design Museum
28 Shad Thames
+44 020 7403 6933
Los Angeles
Hammer Projects: Greg Lynn
May 21 to September 26
The Los Angeles architect's latest sculptural wokr - Fountain of Toys - is on display in the museum's outdoor courtyard. The installation is made entirely out of children's toys that have been cut and reassembled in multiple layers, with water spouting from the top and pooling at the base.
Hammer Museum
10899 Wilshire Blvd.
(310) 443-7000
Hitoshi Abe
July 30 to September 12
The spatially complex and structurally innovative work of Atelier Hitoshi Abe is on display. The firm is widely considered to be among the most interesting emerging Japanese architects.
SCI-Arc
960 E. 3rd St.
(213) 613-2200
Milan
Antibodies
October 14 to January 16, 2011
A retrospective on the 20-year collaboration between Brazilian design duo Fernando and Humberto Campana. Works on display include prototypes, experiments, one-off pieces as well as the classic favourites.
Triennale Design Museum
viale Alemagna, 6
+39 02 724 341
Montreal
Other Space Odysseys: Greg Lynn, Michael Maltzan, and Alessandro Poli
April 8 to September 6
Other Space Odysseys: Greg Lynn, Michael Maltzan, and Alessandro Poli, brings together three architects who address the possibility of visiting – and living in – outer space. The show highlights Lynn’s floating, citysized space stations; Maltzan’s Jet Propulsion Lab (now under construction for NASA in Pasadena); and Poli’s ’70s concept for a highway to the moon. Videos, drawings, models and photographs highlight the innovative tools and experiments that have been developed for testing extreme environments and the logistics for living in outer space. The show aims to provide an understanding of not just the industry’s future, but also the role architects will play in it.
Canadian Centre for Architecture
1920 rue Baile
(514) 939-7026
Iannis Xenakis: Composer, Architect, Visionary
June 17 to October 17
In this retrospective exhibition, visitors are treated to more than 60 documents (some, never-before-seen) by the architect, engineer and composer. Works on display include computer-generated musical scores, architectural blueprints and archival photographs. The exhibit will also include Xenakis's conceptual drawings and renderings for Polytopes; audiences will remember his Polytope de Montreal, the sound and light show he created for the central space of the French pavilion at Expo 67.
Canadian Centre for Architecture
1920 rue Baile
(514) 939-7000
Yesterday's Tomorrows
To September 6
This exhibit examines 10 contemporary artists who are inspired by modernist architecture and design. Works on display include an installation by Paulette Philips, inspired by Eileen Gray's 1929 Villa E.1027; and Simon Starling's remake of iconic Poul Henningsen lamps using recycled materials.
Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal
185 Ste-Catherine Ouest
(514) 847-6226
New York
National Design Triennial: Why Design Now?
May 14 to January 11, 2011
More than 125 projects by practioners in all fields of design examine how it can solve some of today's most urgent problems.
Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
2 East 91st St.
(212) 849-8400
Andy Warhol: The Last Decade
June 18 to September 12
Nearly 50 exhibited pieces reveal Andy Warhol's renewed sense of experimentation during the most productive decade of his life.
Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Pkwy.
(718) 638-5000
Big Bambú
To October 31
The Met's roof garden is taken over by a site-specific bamboo installation that will remain in continual construction as artists Mike and Doug Starn, with a team of rock climbers, build up a 15-metre-high structure.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Ave.
(212) 535-7710
Dead or Alive: Nature Becomes Art
To October 24
An exhbition showcasing the work of over 30 international artists, including Maria Fernanda Cardoso, Julia Lohmann and Levi van Veluw, who transform organic materials and objects that were once created by or part of living organisms (insects, feathers, bones, silkworm cocoons, hair) to create elaborate sculptures and installations.
Museum of Arts and Design
2 Columbus Circle
(212) 299-7777
Ottawa
Pop Life: Art in a Material World
June 11 to September 19
This exhibit explores how the work of high-profile artists like Andy Warhol, Jeff Koons andDamien Hirst negotiates the relationship between contemporary art, commerce, marketing and mass media.
National Gallery of Canada
380 Sussex Dr.
)613) 990-1985
Philadelphia
Hanging Around: Modern and Contemporary Lighting from the Permanent Collection
To October 10
Some twenty hanging light fixtures drawn from the Philadelphia Museum of Art's collection trace the evolution of lamp design. Modern classics like Poul Henningsen's Artichoke lamp share floor space with such contemporary pieces as Ingo Mauer's holographic homage to Thomas Edison.
Philadelphia Museum of Art
2600 Benjamin Franklin Pkwy.
(215) 763-8100
San Francisco
New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape
To October 3
A new version of the seminal 1975 exhibition examines the New Topographics movement, a group of photogrpahers whose work depicted the human impact on the landscape.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
151 Third St.
(415) 357-4000
Toronto
Bent out of Shape
July 16 to October 10
Material from the Design Exchange's permanent collection surveys Canadian industrial design from the postwar period onward.
Design Exchange
234 Bay St.
(416) 363-6121
Venice
Hylozoic Ground
August 29 to November 21
Architect Philip Beesley and his work, titled Hylozoic Ground, has been selected by jury to represent Canada at the 12th annual Venice Biennale in Architecture. Hylozoic Ground will be installed in the Canada Pavilion located in the Giardini. The Biennale is the single most important and prestigious international event in contemporary architecture. More than 30 international exhibitors will participate in the 2010 Venice Biennale in Architecture.
Canadian Pavilion, Giardini Pubblici
Vienna
Balkanology: New Architecture and Urban Phenomena in Southeast Europe
October 22 to January 18, 2010
A selection of European architecture explores socio-political changes in the Balkans and their significance to architecture and urban design.
Architekturzentrum Wien
Museumplatz 1
+43 1522 3115
Weil am Rhein, Germany
Hidden Heroes. The Genius of Everyday Things
August 20 to September 19
An exhibition paying homage to the industrial designers responsible for creating 35 objects used on a daily basis. These "everyday classics" are spotlighted through drawings, films, historical and contemporary advertisments and those products that have been inspired by the classics.
Vitra Design Museum
Charles-Eames-Srt. 1
0049-7621-702-3200
Frank O. Gehry since 1997
October 2 to March 13, 2011
The Vitra Design Museum presents a selection of architect Frank Gehry's most important projects from the last 13 years. Original drawings by Gehry and models of 12 projects will offer visitors a detailed insight into his design process.
Vitra Design Museum
Charles-Eames-Srt. 1
0049-7621-702-3200
