It includes almost 50 buildings -- houses, churches, commercial and industrial structures, cultural and civic centers, universities and museums, many of them competition-winning projects -- as well as his activity as a town planner and designer for industry, presented in drawings, models, photographs and "walk-through" videos.
The four-storey museum houses more than 12, 500 shoes from different cultures spanning 4, 500 years of history, including pairs of 16th-century Venetian platform shoes known as chopines (which range between 15 and 50cm in height, sometimes too tall for a woman to walk unaccompanied), bear fur boots worn by the Japanese samurai and golden stilettos by modern designer Manolo Blahnik.