5 New Architecture & Design Exhibitions for May 2024
...org "The Pool – The Origin of Pool Skateboarding" at Aalto2, Jyväskylä, Finland According to Aalto2 The Pool – The Origin of Pool Skateboarding combines "Alvar Aalto’s architectural heritage, international skateboarding culture, rap and hip-hop culture"... One, The Capital – Samples of Jyväskylä Rap, exploring the influence of rap from Central Finland on wider hip-hop culture in Finland, and three exhibitions focussed on skateboarding: Colors with its reflections on skateboarding, skate culture, from the perspective of Lizzie Armanto; Concrete Currents with its skateboarding photography by Arto Saari; and, and getting to the heart of the matter, or more accurately the kidney of the matter, From the Surf to the Sidewalk – When Skateboarding Culture and Architecture Meet with its central argument that the organic form, that characteristic free flowing outline, Alvar Aalto developed for the swimming pool of the late 1930s Villa Mairea in Noormarkku is...