THE BRUTALIST PLAYGROUND - Exposition in London

Part sculpture, part architectural installation, all play.  The Brutalist Playground is a new commission by Turner Prize nominees Assemble and artist Simon Terrill, exploring post-war design for play.

Occupying the entire Architecture Gallery at RIBA, it encourages visitors to look at the materiality and visual language of now lost Brutalist landscapes in new ways through an immersive and conceptual landscape. Although the value of Brutalist residential buildings today is much debated, this exhibition shifts the focus to the equally important playgrounds found at the feet of these structures, offering a renewed understanding and critique of the architects’ original designs and intentions. 

10 June to16 Augurst 2015 

AT RIBA, 66 PORTLAND PLACE, LONDON

Free entry

Monday - Sunday 10am to 5pm and Tuesday 10am to 8pm

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Playgrounds. Reiventar la plaza - Madrid

Until September 22, 2014, at the Reinha Sofia Museum in Madrid is open the exposition "Playgrounds. Reiventar la plaza" (Playgrounds. Reinventing the Square). From the site: "With some 300 works, the exhibition recounts a different history of art, from the end of the 19th century to the present day, in which artists and activists play a part in redefining public space by exploring the city as a game board, questioning modern-day carnival and holidays, vindicating the right to laziness, reinventing the square as a place of revolt and discovering the possibilities of a new world through its waste. The exhibit takes the playground model as an ideological interrogation of an alienated and consumerist present."

Here the exposition's site: http://www.museoreinasofia.es/en/exhibitions/playgrounds

Here a short video:

Architekture Fur Kinder

When the issue is the relation between child and architecture, playground is always a strong example. Indeed since 1947, when the dutch architect Aldo van Eyck (1918-1999) start the famous Amsterdam experiences, playgrounds were designed all around the world with several different material, shapes and results.

One of the best sites I found is this swiss site called Architekture Fur Kinder where is possible to find several references and links with other material.

http://www.architekturfuerkinder.ch/

Imagination Playground

From the Rockwellgroup's site: "Imagination Playground is a breakthrough playspace concept designed pro-bono by David Rockwell to encourage child-directed, unstructured free play. With a focus on loose parts, Imagination Playground offers a changing array of elements that allows children to constantly reconfigure their environment and to design their own course of play. Giant foam blocks, mats, wagons, fabric and crates overflow with creative potential for children to play, dream, build and explore endless possibilities."


URL: www.imaginationplayground.com