Architecture for All 1956–1989

The catalogue of the exhibition of architecture attempts to convey a basic idea of the architectural development, personalities, and tendencies of the period 1958-1989, with possible selected overlaps up to the year 2000. The order is thematic, emphasizing the main variables of post-industrialization, post-war culture and lifestyle, and the history of everyday life: the exhibitions (EXPO), housing (prefabricated housing), high-tech architecture, and telecommunications (Sial, TV towers, and telephone exchanges), culture and services/sports (socialist consumerism, leisure), and critical architecture. The NGP Architecture Collection is a key resource, supplemented by available material from external source. The catalogue builds on the image series presented in the exhibition, illuminating buildings from non-traditional angles, in a cultural and social context. Taking inspiration from Aby Warburg’s pictorial Atlas, in terms of visual studies, the image becomes the medium, and what is crucial is the visual information it contains in the context of culture – not the stylistic development.