Last Fall we updated the Vignelli Poster display in our galleries. The galleries are closed due to Covid-19, here’s a closer look at the posters on display! Next up: Institute of Architecture and Urban Studies (IAUS) “Architecture in Japan”
In 1973, Massimo Vignelli agreed to do all the graphics and publications for the Institute of Architecture and Urban Studies (IAUS). IAUS was an independent non-profit institute for the study of architecture. They provided an alternative to architecture eduction focusing on design practice as well as the theory and history of the field. IAUS offered a variety of educational courses, publications and programming such exhibitions, lectures, tours, etc.
This poster was designed by Michael Bierut while working at Vignelli Associates and is based off the layout of Massimo Vignelli’s earlier exhibition poster for “A New Wave of Austrian Architecture,” which is also on display in our galleries in a separate case with other publications for the IAUS.
Text from poster: “From May 26 to June 23, 1984, the Institute of Architecture and Urban Studies and the Pratt Institute, School of Architecture will co-sponsor a unique, four-week program exploring traditional and modern architecture in Japan. The long and venerated history of Japanese architecture will be surveyed primarily through a series of field trips, as well as slide-illustrated lectures by the program faculty; contemporary directions will be examined through on-site presentations and special guest lectures by leading Japanese architects and critics.”
Publications included not only the exhibition catalogs and also a series of books of writing by architects, the journal Oppositions, and other promotion brochures about programming and education at IAUS.
ICYMI, read the other posts about the updated poster display to have a virtual tour of the poster gallery:
https://vignellicenter.tumblr.com/search/gallery+guide
And more about the IAUS:
https://vignellicenter.tumblr.com/search/iaus
Stay tuned for more about the posters!
Institute of Architecture and Urban Studies (IAUS) “Architecture in Japan” poster, 1984
Massimo and Lella Vignelli Papers
Vignelli Center for Design Studies
Rochester, New York
Institute of Architecture and Urban Studies (IAUS) “A New Wave of Japanese Architecture” exhibition flyer and catalog, 1978
Massimo and Lella Vignelli Papers
Vignelli Center for Design Studies
Rochester, New York
Institute of Architecture and Urban Studies (IAUS) “New Wave of Austrian Architecture” poster and catalog, 1980
Massimo and Lella Vignelli Papers
Vignelli Center for Design Studies
Rochester, New York
Institute of Architecture and Urban Studies (IAUS) “Oppositions: A Journal for Ideas and Criticism in Architecture”
Massimo and Lella Vignelli Papers
Vignelli Center for Design Studies
Rochester, New York
Adolf Loos “Spoken Into the Void: Collected Essays 1897-1900″
Massimo and Lella Vignelli Papers
Vignelli Center for Design Studies
Rochester, New York
Institute of Architecture and Urban Studies (IAUS) “Educational Programs 1984-1985” booklet, 1984
Massimo and Lella Vignelli Papers
Vignelli Center for Design Studies
Rochester, New York
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