The idea for the show was born with the first exhibition at the Brompton Design District in London in 2017, commissioned by curator Jane Withers. Only 400 photographs of architectural and design details were presented there. Since then, Adam Štěch has intensified his research and travelled to more than 40 countries around the world to record Modernist buildings by famous as well as little known and forgotten architects. The exhibition features exceptional designs by seminal figures such as Gio Ponti, Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, and Adolf Loos, as well as by hundreds of neglected architects.
 
The photos are presented as paper prints in simple aluminium frames. They are divided into typological sections, allowing us to examine the range of formal designs in Modernist architecture and analyse contexts and changes in the development of 20th century architecture and design throughout the world. Inspired by the work of Hilla and Bernd Becher, in this project Adam Štěch systematically records formal differences and similarities within the Modernist movement.

The exhibition installation was designed by Matěj Činčera and Jan Kloss who run OKOLO Collective with Adam Štěch.

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Curator: Rainald Franz, Curator, MAK Glass and Ceramics Collection