vitra design museum case study

As with a number of great works of architecture, the Vitra Design Museum’s story began with a fire. One night in 1981, a single bolt of lightning struck the Vitra Campus setting off an...

Architect Lina Bo Bardi surveys the view from her Casa de Vidro in São Paulo, Brazil—one of 20 pioneering interiors showcased in the Vitra Design Museum's latest show.

The Vitrahaus created a new exhibition space for Vitra’s Home Collection, equipped with the reception, shop, café and conference space on the ground floor (Kries, 2016).

The work of the Vitra Design Museum is based on its collection, which includes not only key objects of design history, but also the estates of several important design personalities. The museum library and document archive are available to researchers upon request.

The main building of the Vitra Design Museum was designed by Frank Gehry as his first project in Europe and opened its doors to the public in 1989. In this digital tour with museum director...

Designed by the well known diconstructivist architect Frank Gehry, the Vitra Design Museum is an internationally and privately owned museum for design in Weil am Rhein, Germany. Vitra CEO Rolf Fehlbaum founded the museum in 1989.

SANAA began to plan a production facility for Vitrashop – a shop fitting company within the Vitra Group – on the south side of the Campus. The completion of these two new buildings also ...

Vitra Design Museum. Architecture lovers find, in Vitra, the ideal place to review and study the history of design. Gehry ’s first major project in Europe is a reinterpretation of the large white cube, an architectural sculpture that set the tone of his illustrious career.

Vitra Design Museum has collaborated with the Tokyo Institute of Technology to relocate one of Japanese architect Kazuo Shinohara's last remaining homes from Tokyo to its architecture park in...