Holland - Italy

Présentation de l'éditeur :

On the occasion of the reopening of the Dutch Embassy in May 2007, the Dutch Embassy in Rome wants to celebrate this with several cultural events, which will have links with the building, the state of the architecture and the art works which will be permanently on display in and on top of the Embassy. In order to address the specificity of the occasion, as far as architecture is concerned, has been imagined an exhibition about the activity of some Dutch offices of the youngest generation. They will be compared with an equal panel of Italian, emergent groups, whose work, for different reasons, is related to the Dutch scene, also to indicate the ultimate European condition in which more and more the youngest designers grow up and use to operate today.
The field in which the "match" takes place is borrowed from the actual condition of Dutch architecture. In the last decade Dutch architecture has been one of the most successful and influential, recognized on a planetary level and extremely appreciated. Pragmatism ? a masterly mixture of freshness, efficiency and "realism" was the most important character that contributed to its affirmation.