▓ ♜ ☾ Cybernetic habitat part 2: la casa telematica by Ugo La Pietra

Resuming Cybernetic habitats this part is looking into the work of Ugo La Pietra and one of the visionaries who always inspire me. La Pietra worked on the concept of the Casa Telematica. 

 This house here is a place of gathering, processing and distributing information from the public to the private realm and likewise. It seems quite normal now but 40 years ago it was still something too fictional and impractical.

Pre-internet situation, this project is one of the earliest in this example to expand the physical perception of the body and of the domestic cell to the awareness of the influences on behaviour and the mental suffering of the individual produced by the urban fabric.

ϟ Fin de Siècle curated by Andreas Angelidakis at the Swiss Institute New York

Fin de Siècle curated by Andreas Angelidakis is a curatorial 

homage to Eugène Ionesco’s 1952 play “The Chairs”

(chairs on photo by Gaetano Pesce and Frederic Levrat)

  

the exhibition includes a selection of late 20th century design pieces sourced from museum and private collections

(chair on photo by Mario Botta)

The exhibiton include pieces by Martine Boileau, Mario Botta, Andrea Branzi, Marcel Breuer, Nacho Carbonell, Oswald Dubach, H.R. Giger, Pierre Jeanneret, Charles-Edouard Jeanneret (Le Corbusier), Reto Kaufmann, Wilhelm Kienzle, Gian Franco Legler, Frédéric Levrat, Alessandro Mendini, NN, Paolo Palucco, Charlotte Perriand, Gaetano Pesce, Ugo La Pietra, Bruno Rey, Alfred Roth, Peter Shire, team form ag, Kurt Thut, Peter Truog, Robert Venturi, Lawrence Weiner, and Armin Wirth.

(chairs on photo by Peter Shire, Nacho Carbonell and Le Corbusier)

Ugo La Pietra

Ugo La Pietra,  Martine Boileau, Marcel Breuer and Alessandro Mendini

Alessandro Mendini

Robert Venturi

Pierre Jeanneret

Paolo Pallucco

Also included in the show the video "Iolas" done by Andreas as part of his ongoing investigation with the abandoned villa and collection of the famous collector and gallerist Alexander Iolas

And also this multiple at the Institute's bookstore

The silver facade of the Swiss Institute

Exhibition map