MVRDV's long history of climate-driven design explored in new exhibition

MVRDV’s CARBON CONFESSIONS is on view now until February 27th at the Architecture Gallery Munich (Architekturgalerie München). There, visitors will have the opportunity to chart the firm’s development along an "honest narrative" featuring early ideas such as the Berlin Voids and continuing through their groundbreaking EXPO 2000 design to culminate with today’s climate-driven material innovations.

The museum describes this exhibition more as a "confession" than a testament to their prolific output and mainstream critical success after 1993. Frank reflections guide the exhibition, which itself is a "testament to resourcefulness—utilizing repurposed props and materials." In the end, this invites an open dialogue on the source and challenges behind climate-based design, highlighted candidly by the different obstacles the firm has faced along the way. 

Curators say finally: "It’s an invitation for architects, students, and the public to join a conversation that’s bigger than design—one that’s about reshaping cities to heal the planet, through architecture that breathes, adapts, and even dares to regenerate." 

Our recent look at MVRDV's adaptive reuse conversion of the once-abandoned EXPO 2000 Pavilion in Hannover can be found here.