Future Islands at Palazzo Bollani

Catalogue description of exhibition: How may a country’s architecture be communicated and comprehended? Future Islands presents New Zealand architecture as a grouping of metaphorical islands, an imagined archipelago encompassing a variety of approaches and responses to the uid and uncertain conditions of contemporary global practice. The exhibition explores some of the opportunities available to architects working in one of the world’s smallest, most open, informal and diverse societies. It acknowledges and encourages speculative work because architects – forever optimistic, as they are obliged to be – have a responsibility to develop new ways to help di erent people live together in changing social and natural environments.