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Alberto Meda, Bild: Triennale di Milano / Miro Zagnoli
Bild: Triennale di Milano / Gianluca Di Ioia

Alberto Meda is often misjudged as an “engineer of design”. That Meda is rather an “extraordinary designer”, as Marco Sammicheli, the director of the “Museum of Italian Design” has put it, is shown in an exhibition at the Milan Triennale, which presents what Meda has created in 40 years under the title „Tension und Lightness“ until 7 January 2024. Numerous projects, photographs, prototypes, drawings and unpublished material are on display. The show is divided into several chapters that follow the main themes of Meda’s “compositional poetics”: the search for visual and constructive lightness through mechanical solutions, tension and suspension, attention to the integration of functions, technology and materials, the use of light and the development of comfort. According to the Triennale, the exploration of design and the relationship between design, technology and users will be further developed with a light installation specially conceived for the “Scalone d’Onore”. Design, according to Meda, is the ability to “relate to matter: Only by learning to listen to it can one better understand and express its achievements.” Moreover, as Interni reports, Meda said at the opening, alluding to his engineering degree: “A certain amount of expertise is helpful, because theoretical study is the prerequisite for understanding the potential of the material”.


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