Five years after the inauguration of the National Museum of the 21st Century Arts and almost fifteen years since the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities started establishing its collections, the MAXXI Architettura wishes – with this catalogue – to convey the nature and the import of the work done over the past years.
This volume documents the authors contained in the collection and the projects resulting from competitions, commissions and other cultural programmes organised by the MAXXI between 2001 and 2015. It is a handy reference tool for researchers and professionals, but also a substantial and significant synthesis of contemporary architectural production, addressed to the Museum of Architecture’s public. The diverse nature of the collected documents, objects and projects clearly reflects the museum’s activity, which has followed different directions – from conservation to exhibition, from research to communication, from production to documentation – but always with the same goal: to firmly establish Italy’s first national museum of architecture.
IT. Margherita Guccione, architetto, è direttore del Museo di architettura moderna e contemporanea del MAXXI (MAXXI Architettura). Dal 2000 ha seguito per il Ministero per i beni e le attività culturali la progettazione e la realizzazione della sede del MAXXI su progetto di Zaha Hadid ed è stata responsabile scientifico del progetto culturale della nuova istituzione. In questo ruolo ha avviato le collezioni di architettura curando le acquisizioni degli archivi di alcuni dei principali architetti del Novecento e di rilevanti disegni, modelli e installazioni di architetti contemporanei. Dal 2010, anno dell’apertura del MAXXI, cura la programmazione delle mostre, delle attività scientifiche e degli eventi del Museo di architettura. È autore di numerosi scritti e saggi sull’architettura del Novecento e del XXI secolo e sul rapporto tra contemporaneità e conservazione.
EN. Architect Margherita Guccione is the director of MAXXI’s Museum of Modern and Contemporary Architecture (MAXXI Architettura). From 2000, she supervised on behalf of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities the design and execution of the MAXXI building by Zaha Hadid and was the scientific supervisor of the new institution. In this role, she set up the architecture collections, managing the acquisition of archives of some of the leading 20th century architects and significant drawings, models and installations by contemporary architects. Since the opening of MAXXI in 2010, she is responsible of the Museum of Architecture’s programme of exhibitions, cultural activities and events. She is the author of numerous papers and essays on 20th and 21st century architecture and on the relationship between contemporaneity and conservation.
