Lang curating MoMA radical Italian
designers exhibit at Swiss museum

Peter Lang, an associate professor of architecture at Texas A&M, is one of three curators of a major exhibit highlighting 20th century radical Italian designers at an architecture museum in Switzerland through June.

The exhibit, “Environments and Counter Environments: Experimental Media in ‘Italy: The New Domestic Landscape, MoMA 1972'” opened Friday, March 27 at the Swiss Architecture Museum in Basel and runs through June 27.

The show, actually an exhibit of an exhibit, brings together for the first time in 37 years the entire set of films produced for the original, groundbreaking exhibition that explored sociocultural implications of Italian product design environments at New York's Museum of Modern Art in 1972.

The show's related design documents display a range of attitudes toward the conception and theoretical imperatives of the environments; the current exhibition encounters media and environments and their potential for new thinking about the boundaries of architecture, domestic spaces, their conditions and territories.

Working with Lang as co-curators are Luca Molinari with the Nuova Accademia delle Belle Arti, or New Academy of Fine Arts, in Milan, and Mark Wasiuta, of the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University.

For more details about the exhibit and a video interview with Lang, visit http://www.sam-basel.org

- Posted: Feb. 02, 2010 -