Forum of Design for the Public Realm
Places
AboutFoundation
Partner Schools
Print Archive
Peer Review
Submissions
Donate
Contact
Departments
CritiqueEssays
Gallery
Interviews
Multimedia
Partner News
Peer Reviewed
Poetry & Fiction
Projects
Topics
ArchitectureArt
Books
Cities / Places
Community
Culture
Design History
Design Practice
Development
Ecology
Economy
Education
Energy
Environment
Film / Video
Food/Agriculture
Geography
Health / Safety
History
Housing
Ideas
Infrastructure
Landscape
Photography
Planning
Politics / Policy
Preservation
Public / Private
Reputations
Sustainability
Technology
Theory/Criticism
Transportation
Urbanism
Water
Design Observer
ArchiveBooks + Store
Job Board
Email Archive
Comments
About
Contact
Log In
Register
City as Theater, 1977
Having already designed the posters for a visiting fellows lecture series in spring 1974, and for the Architecture lecture series from 1974 to 1977, Vignelli created the graphics for City as Theater, an interdisciplinary event organized by Institute fellows, focusing on the interplay between metropolitan culture and theatrical performance.
In keeping with the graphic identity he had created for the Institute, Vignelli used a horizontal format, which allowed him to enlarge the red logotype. On the basis of City as Theater, the Institute applied for funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
SLIDESHOW: Image 2/19
ABOUT THE ESSAY
Massimo Vignelli: Oppositions, Skyline and the InstituteOn Places, a gallery of Massimo Vignelli's graphic design work for the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, written and curated by Kim Förster.
Read Essay >>
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Kim Förster is a doctoral candidate at the ETH in Zurich, where he is working on a history of the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies.More Bio >>
