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Architecture Thu Jan 22 2009

While the earthly real estate environment has gotten decidedly more difficult for architects in the past two years, a couple of architects have found a new market. Archi-artists Arturo Vittori (Italy) and Andres Volger (Switzerland) are opening a new exhibit at the Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago, aptly titled "From Pyramids to Spacecraft". Beginning March 11th, the show will feature their hyper-real graphics and models of such futuristic projects as MoonBaseTwo, an inflatable space station or MercuryHouseTwo, a self-contained, mass-produced space eco-home. If the use of the hyphen in the previous sentence seems a bit excessive, it is only because their studio, Architecture and Vision, works beyond the typical scope of an architectural project. Their designs combine much of the mechanical ingenuity of Leonardo da Vinci with modern-day technological challenges. Check out their work at Architecture and Vision's website, here.