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Architecture + Sport. - from antique stadiums to modern arenas
01.06.2006 - 03.09.2006
Exhibition | PINAKOTHEK DER MODERNE | ARCHITEKTUR
The sporting year in Germany in 2006 will be totally dominated by the matches of the World Cup Soccer Tournament. To accompany this event, the Architekturmuseum der TU München (Architecture Museum of the TU Munich) will be holding an exhibition entitled »Architecture + Sport. From Stadiums of the Antiquity to modern Arenas« and will be located in the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich.
In the course of the centuries, different kinds of arenas were built to stage diverse types of sports. The architecture was adapted accordingly to meet both the changing requirements of the sport itself and to the significance that sport held in society at that time. They range from arenas of the antiquity, medieval tournament grounds, Renaissance buildings for fencing, ball-playing facilities in the early Modern Age - through to contemporary sports stadiums and Olympic complexes. Given the world-wide importance that sport commands in the 20th century as a major national event and as a leading media and economic factor, sports arenas are playing an increasingly significant role in people's perceptions - in some cases as means of social identification.
The exhibition aims on the one hand at illustrating the evolution and variety of architecture associated with sports arenas and on the other at showing through a series of achievements in master building how sports stadiums are being used more and more to experiment with new constructions and ways of developing building design. Models, photographs, graphics, drawings, films and animation programmes are on hand to stimulate a deeper insight into the connex between sport and sports sites and to illuminate the architectural and constructional aesthetics of selected arenas. There will be a catalogue to accompany the exhibition that is presented by the Stiftung Pinakothek der Moderne and sponsored by the Kulturfonds Bayern. |
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