Current exhibitions
Gio Ponti. Loving architecture
REOPENING: 22-23-24/29-30-31 May and from 2 June on the usual opening days and hours
40 years on from his death, MAXXI is dedicating a major retrospective to him that studies and presents his versatility, starting out with an account of his architecture.
At Home 20.20
projects for contemporary housing
REOPENING: from 18 June 2020
A review that ranges from the low-cost housing projects of the post-war years to new experimental and sustainable ways of inhabiting the planet
Giovanni Gastel. The People I like
200 people, 200 portraits of a never seen Gastel. Faces who: «Have passed on something to me, taught me, touched my soul».
YAP ROME AT MAXXI 2020
The Young Architects Program, launched and coordinated by MoMA, reaches its 8th edition at MAXXI.
CASA MONDO
Seven leading international designers have been asked to investigate and present their vision regarding seven themes and functions of habitation.
THE INDEPENDENT. Max Fletcher
Three canvases combine words, painting and gestures in a critical rethinking of the past as a means of building friendships, solidarity and alliances.
Upcoming
Isaac Julien. Lina Bo Bardi — Un meraviglioso groviglio
«Time is not linear, it is a marvellous tangle in which, at any moment, ends can be chosen and solutions invented, without beginning or end».
Public Service and the Virtual Newsroom: Back to the Future?
Per la prima volta dopo l’emergenza Covid19 si riuniscono broadcaster provenienti da tutti i continenti. Parte così la settantaduesima edizione del Prix Italia, concorso organizzato dalla Rai per programmi di qualità radio, tv e web.
Alketa Xhafa Mripa in conversazione con Hou Hanru
Donne, diritti umani e società, al MAXXI incontriamo l'artista kosovara sostenitrice della verità.
Sandro Veronesi. Abitare la scrittura
Un incontro tra letteratura e architettura, tra cambiamento e storia del nostro modo di vivere la casa.
Virus sovrano? L’asfissia capitalistica di Donatella Di Cesare
Il virus ha messo allo scoperto la spietatezza del capitalismo e mostra l’impossibilità di salvarsi, se non con l’aiuto reciproco, costringendo a pensare un nuovo modo di coabitare.
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Riccardo Morandi and the aesthetics of structures in architectural and landscape design
MAXXI Architettura Archives Centre – admittance free subject to availability of places
With the construction of the bridge over the Maracaibo lagoon in Venezuela, an extraordinary megastructure of a world record 9 kilometres in length, Riccardo Morandi achieved the international fame and acclaim as master builder of bridges and viaducts, earning the epithet Le Corbusier on four wheels.
Both worked in Rome and their actions emerge inevitably, without ever intersecting: Morandi and Nervi, protagonists of the season of great Italian engineering.
In 1962, both were awarded prizes by Aitec Associazione Italiana Tecnico Economica del Cemento – for their diverse but equally remarkable masterpieces that were to mark the history of architecture: the palazzo dello Sport (1957-59)in Rome for Nervi and the Underground Pavilion in Turin (1961) for Morandi.
The props in reinforced concrete to which the slim vaults of Nervi’s roof elegantly conform, are countered by Morandi with the imposing blocks of the portals, the powerful masses in finely calibrated equilibrium of his prestressed structures.
The conference investigates not only Morandi’s professional career, but also the expressive quality and the innovative aesthetic charge that marks his masterpieces. A specific section is devoted to the relationship between the built work and its insertion into the landscape and a concluding focus looks at the extensive archive the great engineer’s heirs have deposited in the Central State Archive in Rome.
Speakers
Marzia Marandola Sapienza University, Rome
Maurizio Morandi
Flavia Lorello Central State Archive, Rome
Other events of the Pier Luigi Nervi. Architetture per lo Sport cycle
opening hours
MONDAY closed
TUESDAY 11:00 am – 7:00 pm
WEDNESDAY 11:00 am – 7:00 pm
THURSDAY 11:00 am – 7:00 pm
FRIDAY 11:00 am – 7:00 pm
SATURDAY 11:00 am – 7:00 pm
SUNDAY 11:00 am – 7:00 pm
The ticket office is open until 1 hour before Museum closing.
Other upcoming events
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29 September 2020
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29 September 2020
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03 October 2020 - 04 October 2020
Summer at MAXXI. Performance OHT | Office for a Human Theatre. Rompere il ghiaccio
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