Charles and Ray Eames

Have you seen The Eames Houses at the Triennale di Milano?

The exhibition brings together built, unbuilt, and previously unseen residential work by Charles and Ray Eames—centered on adaptable, prefabricated living. That vision now continues through the Eames Pavilion System, developed with Kettal.
 
Triennale Milano
Exhibition dates: April 21 – May 10, 2026
 
Presented by Eames Office and Kettal (). Developed in research partnership with the Charles & Ray Eames Foundation ().

📷: Zachary Hyland ()

During Milan Design Week 2026, the Eames Office presents a multi-faceted architectural initiative at the Triennale di Milano. Centered on the 800-square-meter exhibition The Eames Houses and the debut of the Eames Pavilion System, the project reflects Charles and Ray Eames’ vision for prefabricated, modular, and human-scale architecture.

Developed with Barcelona-based manufacturer Kettal, the Eames Pavilion System translates the Eameses’ residential work of the 1940s and 1950s into a fully engineered construction system. Rooted in projects including Case Study House No. 8 (the Eames House), it extends their approach to prefabrication as an adaptable framework for contemporary living.

The Eames Houses exhibition draws on extensive archival research, presenting previously unseen materials from the Eames Office Archive. On view April 21–May 10, 2026, it is accompanied by a Phaidon publication—the first sourcebook dedicated to Charles and Ray’s residential architecture.
 
Triennale Milano
Milan Design Week
April 21–26, 2026
 
Presented by Eames Office and Kettal (). Developed in research partnership with the Charles & Ray Eames Foundation ()

📷: Salva Lopez

Eames in 90 Seconds returns tomorrow—featuring a furniture system built with the logic of a bridge. Like the Eames House, it reflects a belief in modular construction and the honest use of materials. Nothing is hidden.

Five Models by Charles and Ray Eames: Part 5

In this series, we explore how models shaped the way Charles and Ray thought, designed, and collaborated. More than representations, these models were tools for generating ideas, testing space, and telling stories.

In 1975, Charles and Ray Eames were invited by The Metropolitan Museum of Art to envision a new kind of information center—one that would help visitors navigate the museum’s vast collections through emerging computer and videodisc technologies. Conceived as a proposed wing extending into Central Park, the project reimagined the museum as an interconnected system of knowledge rather than a sequence of isolated galleries.

The Eames Office developed a one-inch-scale model to explore this idea, organizing the ground floor around an Information Hall that combined a walk-through historical timeline, collection highlights, computer-based retrieval stations, video kiosks, and spaces for film, lectures, and conversation. The proposal was presented through a study film blending live-action footage, animation, and still photography of the model, demonstrating how visitors might move through—and actively engage with—the museum’s collections in new ways.

The model’s remarkably realistic qualities embodied a forward-looking, mid-1970s vision of how art could be experienced through emerging media.

📷: © Eames Office, LLC.