Drawing is often the most fragile yet powerful place of the project, a suspended space between intuition and form, where the architectural idea begins to take shape before translating into matter. It is from this preliminary and almost domestic dimension of the creative process that the architecture studio AMArchitectrue, founded by Stefania Agostini and Luca Mostarda, presents the exhibition Drawings from the Drawer in Rome on Friday, March 13, 2026, hosted in the spaces of PORTUENSE201.
The exhibition originates within the cultural project F/A FakeAuthentic, an initiative launched in 2019 with the aim of building an open platform for dialogue between architecture, design, and experimentation. What initially began as a call addressed to young creatives invited to interpret a theme through the design of a piece of furniture has gradually evolved into an international collective capable of engaging galleries, fairs, and exhibition contexts across Italy and Europe.
The Roman edition focuses on a specific moment in the design process: what remains in the drawer. Preparatory drawings, sketches, and intuitions—often relegated to intermediate tools destined to disappear in the transition toward the final object—become here the subject of the narrative. Drawings from the Drawer brings these early traces to light, acknowledging their ability to reveal the most authentic dimension of design thinking.
The exhibition project, curated by Stefania Agostini with the project direction of Matteo Pigni and the exhibition design coordinated by Jacopo Luini and Gianluca Micera (UNBALANCED), interprets the idea of the drawer as a spatial device. The space of PORTUENSE201 becomes a place of gradual unveiling, where the works emerge as fragments of a creative process that precedes the object and preserves its origin.
The exhibition gathers an international collective of architects and designers—including Duccio Maria Gambi, Novarino Jendras, Naessi, H501, Millim Studio, Hyperspandrel, Marco Barazzuoli, Fabian Buxhofer, S2A, Daniela Pinotti, Ana Aragão, Carton123, Verloren Bekisting, and Vormen—invited to transform the gesture of drawing into a three-dimensional presence. What usually remains at the margins of the project thus becomes object, space, and experience.
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