Architecture for Exhibition

The workshop will provide an opportunity for practical synthesis through which all the notions that will be made available by the other teaching modules can be tested, guaranteeing strategic responses to a real architectural project. The workshop, conducted in collaboration with the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, will look at the rearrangement of the museum's permanent collection. One of the world's best known museums of modern art, and Venice's second most visited one, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection is housed in an architectural unicum overlooking the Grand Canal, displaying the elite of modern art between surrealism and abstract art. Formerly the home of the eccentric American patron Peggy Guggenheim, the museum is a place that presents numerous design challenges. Set-up complexities, such as the free but safe enjoyment of priceless masterpieces - in the sublime setting of Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, works by Picasso, Kandinsky, Pollock and Magritte are exhibited -, the lighting of the works as opposed to the opening onto the Grand Canal, as well as the instances of accessibility and the density of artefacts in sumptuous yet domestic spaces (100 masterpieces in 400 square meters), make the Peggy Guggenheim Collection a natural research laboratory - as well as an unmissable opportunity - for designers who wish to measure themselves against exhibition and museum themes.