Night Fever. Designing Club Culture 1960 – Today
Currently, at Vitra Design Museum is in display a unique exhibition about nightclubs, a typology of space rarely discussed in architecture magazines and media. In a chronological way the exhibition explores the emergence of nightclubs as spaces for experimentation with interior design, new media, and alternative lifestyles. The exhibition examines also the type of locations where the nightclubs are born and their impact on the surrounding city life and urban fabric. The tour starts in the 60’ with famous clubs, the Electric Circus (1967) in New York, or Space Electronic (1969) in Florence and ends up to present day, including contemporary new concepts of OMA and Detroit-based designers Akoaki, who have created a mobile DJ booth called »The Mothership«.
