-Architects' voices from all over the world - A conscious look that
merges past and future - Fully illustrated with images and plans
Catalogue of the TECHNOTOPIA exhibition, which will be held at MAXXI in
2022, focusing on the relationship between artistic and scientific
disciplines, nowadays closer than ever, and the consequent contacts
between technique, creativity and social awareness. Architecture,
engineering and science have overlapped on numerous occasions during the
20th century. First in the heroic phase and then in the mature phase of
the reinforced concrete, then with the affirmation of hi-tech
construction methods in the 1970s and 1980s and finally with the
irruption of digitally controlled technologies. TECHNOTOPIA explores
this alliance, responding to MAXXI's mission to look towards the future
of our planet and the disciplines that modify its spaces. The volume
follows the dual register of the exhibition, first dealing with how
technology is making architecture, urban planning and other related
disciplines more aware of their technical and scientific responsibility
and capable of opening up new lines of research. The focus shifts then
to structural engineering, comparing current masterpieces with previous
historical modernist examples.
