Last week I’ve been invited to a press conference with archistar David Chipperfield that will be the protagonist of the next architecture exhibition at Basilica Palladiana in Vicenza. The conference was hosted by Vicenza deputy mayor Jacopo Bulgarini 
d’Elci and Lorenzo Marchetto, president of association Abacoarchitettura that had already organized previous successful exhibition in Vicenza about Mario Botta, Renzo Piano, Tadao Ando, Alvaro Siza, Toyo Ito and many other archistars. It has been 12 years that an architect exhibition wasn’t set in Vicenza and Chipperfield’s exhibition marks the return of a new sequence of events about architecture in one of the most important towns of the world known for architectural style and tradition due to Palladio works and influence still strong nowadays.
The conference has been very interesting and Chipperfled has said that many times people that get in touch with architecture follow a misunderstanding i.e. we look at architecture as images instead as environments where we have to move and live.
I asked Chipperfiled about this: I am a person that,
as many others, attends to exhibitions and as a journalist of performing arts I have to highlight that architecture, especially in the late XIX and during all the XX century has been very influential toward the other arts and mostly in cinema and dance due to its strength as image. I asked him if, in his opinion, it is still possible that architecture can inspire the performing artist to create unforgettable shows. He answered me that a performance is a moment and that architecture is not a performance, it develops in a long period, that architecture has a different responsibility that can be conveyed in different ways but architects are not artists and they have to be integrated in a social process.
Someone has asked about the set of the exhibition 
and Chipperfield showed a draft of the set inside the main hall in the Basilica
David Chipperfield’s works are all around the world, from Germany to Japan
The exhibition will be set in Basilica Palladiana, 
Piazza dei Signori in Vicenza from may 12th 2018 to September 2nd 2018
All the infos about updates and events
http://chipperfield.abacoarchitettura.org