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For the entire week of Milanese Furniture Fair and beyond (up to May, 24) one of the ancient patios of University of Milan (in via Festa del Perdono, 7) will be occupied by an extraordinary site-specific installation designed by the famous Polish-American architect Daniel Libeskind. His work entitled “Future flowers” is a great combination of multiplicity of disciplines such as design, architecture, art and aesthetics. And the key-word dominating the whole installation is “color”.
For the entire week of Milanese Furniture Fair and beyond (up to May, 24) one of the ancient patios of University of Milan (in via Festa del Perdono, 7) will be occupied by an extraordinary site-specific installation designed by the famous Polish-American architect Daniel Libeskind. His work entitled “Future flowers” is a great combination of multiplicity of disciplines such as design, architecture, art and aesthetics. And the key-word dominating the whole installation is “color”.
During a press preview conference, Libeskind claimed that color is an essential, inalienable part of people’s lives and a key aspect of sustainable design, as it is the basis of our sensational sphere, well-being and comfort. Color, in a way, is the soul of architecture. So why shall we dismiss it and make everything too white, bland and tasteless? To state his ‘color attitude’, Libeskind decided to go back to the beginning of his career: to the provocative complexity expressed in his now famous series of drawings entitled Chamber Works.
At the beginning of his architectural practice in the 1980′s, Libeskind’s Chamber Works were a pure expression of his design philosophy. Taking a cue from his own graphic works, he collaborated with Italian firm Oikos to fill the entire Farmacia court at the University of Milan with this stunning geometrical pattern made of... Read the rest of the article and see all pictures on . Inhabitat USA
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Text and pictures for Inhabitat USA by Maria Novozhilova
Follow me on twitter at @NovozhilovaM
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