Restless Architecture. Diller Scofidio + Renfro

The volume accompanying the exhibition Restless Architecture curated by the New York-based studio Diller Scofidio + Renfro and set up for the MAXXI, intercepts a line of research parallel to that of the exhibition and, at the same time, establishes an ongoing relationship with it. On the one hand, it explores the theme of movement as an alien and at the same time inescapable dimension of the architectural organism, rereading some crucial creations of the architects and relating them to other critical experiences of modernity . On the other, it returns the sequence conceived by the studio Diller Scofidio + Renfro specifically for the Roman exhibition, thus offering an unprecedented and current interpretation of the theme, which is configured as a critical essay of their vast and spectacular production. The result is a complex and convincing narrative, which introduces a new key to reading the history and present of architecture.

The volume is enriched by a rich iconographic apparatus, authorial images portraying the architecture of Diller Scofidio + Renfro, as well as an anthology of texts on the theme of movement, from the 1st century BC to the contemporary age.