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Piazza Santissima Annunziata, Firenze

 

This is the second in the series of “Transnational Dialogues on Urbanism”. This symposium proposes to revisit the theme of form and politics in architecture and urbanism throught a series of “Transational Dialogues”. The proposition is that they are not opposite poles of a discourse but that the very production of form is political and that at the same time form and presence are conditions for the political.

 

Two  days that start on March 21 with a lecture by Mark Robbins (Dean of the School of Architecture, Syracuse University) titled “Spazi del Quotidiano”. Robbins will talk about the ways in which architecture and art practice can function critically in reflecting social and physical aspects of the city. He will explores the intersection of the built environment with cultural practices.

 

Invited speakers come from all over the world and they represent a wide range of attitudes to the production of architecture and urbanism, yet the difference between them is not so much to be found in the forms they produce but in the way they understand architectural practice and in the way they conceptualize the production of form. From participation to materiality, from art installations to theoretical discourses on the limits of the discipline; the participants represent a wide range of positions and propositions regarding the role and character of architecture and its relation to the urban today.

 

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Images description:

img 1: Mark Robbins, Orders , Plaza San Francisco, XV Quito Biennial, 2006 img 2 e 3: Nigel Henderson, published in the book Team X, meetings edited by Alison Smithson, Rizzoli 1991