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for young people aged between 18 and 25 (not yet turned 25); for groups of 15 people or more; La Galleria Nazionale, Museo Ebraico di Roma ticket holders; upon presentation of ID card or badge: Accademia Costume & Moda, Accademia Fotografica, Biblioteche di Roma, Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Enel (for badge holder and accompanying person), FAI – Fondo Ambiente Italiano, Feltrinelli, Gruppo FS, IN/ARCH – Istituto Nazionale di Architettura, Sapienza Università di Roma, LAZIOcrea, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Amici di Palazzo Strozzi, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Scuola Internazionale di Comics, Teatro Olimpico, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Teatro di Roma, Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, Youthcard; upon presenting at the ticket office a Frecciarossa or a Frecciargento ticket to Rome purchased between 27 November 2024 and 20 April 2025
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minors under 18 years of age; disabled people requiring companion; EU Disability Card holders and accompanying person; MiC employees; myMAXXI cardholders; registered journalists with a valid ID card; European Union tour guides and tour guides, licensed (ref. Circular n.20/2016 DG-Museums); 1 teacher for every 10 students; AMACI members; CIMAM – International Committee for Museums and Collections of Modern Art members; ICOM members; journalists (who can prove their business activity); European Union students and university researchers in art history and architecture, public fine arts academies (AFAM registered) students and Temple University Rome Campus students from Tuesday to Friday (excluding holidays); IED – Istituto Europeo di Design professors, NABA – Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti professors, RUFA – Rome University of Fine Arts professors; upon presentation of ID card or badge: Collezione Peggy Guggenheim a Venezia, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Sotheby’s Preferred, MEP – Maison Européenne de la Photographie; on your birthday presenting an identity document
MAXXI’s Collection of Art and Architecture represents the founding element of the museum and defines its identity. Since October 2015, it has been on display with different arrangements of works.
17 April – 5 October 2014
Architecture Archives Centre Hall
curated by Margherita Guccione and Tullia Iori
A dynamic equilibrium between continuity and innovation: this has Rome transformed into something familiar a number of innovative structures by the most famous engineers of the 20th Century, absorbing them within its millennial process of stratification.
Iconic buildings and points of reference for the city such as Stazione Termini by Eugenio Montuori, the Palazzetto dello Sport and the papal audience hall by Pierluigi Nervi, the bridge on the Appia Antica, the new general market on Via Prenestina and the consolidation of the Basilica of Maxentius by Sergio Musmeci, are just a few of the works chosen to illustrate how even reinforced concrete, when handled by great masters, has contributed to the appeal of the city and stood up to the comparison with its eternal beauty.
On show are a selection of studies, plans, models, drawings, contemporary videos and photographs from the collection relating to the engineers of the 20th Century conserved in the MAXXI Architettura Archives Centre.
Pier Luigi Nervi, Antonio Nervi, Papal Audience Hall, Vatican City, Rome 1963/1971. Photograph, interior view of the construction site