Design and protect

SERIES: Building telling architecture 
SPEAKER: Laura Andreini, architect
DATE: Thursday, May 16, 6 p.m.

There is no juxtaposition between building and telling, but a same goal that concurs in the realization of the same design, and that is to inhabit the earth in harmony with what is around it through behaviors that seek not mimesis but understanding, not the intransigence of renunciation but the possible coexistence between what is given to us and what we must do to deserve it.  This approach looks at places as circular landscapes inhabited by different living beings with equal dignity and at territories as environments to be inhabited and enriched not as resources to be extracted. Architectural design, read according to these aspirations, allows one to look at the actors in the process of land transformation with a renewed confidence because it shows the way to a sought-after balance between the need to protect any heritage derived from the existing, whether natural or historical-architectural, and the needs of a society that develops its own ideas and meets its own needs through conscious actions, otherwise defined as sustainable. Consequently, the project is transformed into a critical text designed to introspectively narrate an architecture that transforms the dialogue with the territory into the reason and ultimate goal of its design.

Laura Andreini is an architect and associate professor of Architectural and Urban Composition at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Florence, where she graduated with highest honors in 1990 and received her PhD degree in 1997. In 1988 together with Marco Casamonti and Giovanni Polazzi she founded the Archea studio in Florence, which was joined by Silvia Fabi in 2001. Archea Associati is a design studio in which more than 180 architects collaborate, operating in offices in Florence, Rome, Milan and Genoa. Thanks also to the collaboration with partner firms in Beijing, Dubai, Tirana and Sao Paulo, the firm has realized works of Urban Planning, Landscaping, Architecture, Design, Yacht design, Interior Design and Graphic Design, all over the world. Since 2003, he has held the position of deputy editor of "Area," an international architecture and design arts magazine, currently published by the Tecniche Nuove group in Milan. In April 2018, she began a collaboration with the Museo Novecento in Florence, which entrusted her with the curatorship of the cycle of exhibitions and lectures entitled "Paradigm. The architect's table." In 2011 the Forma publishing house entrusts her with the conception and direction of the series "ONE" dedicated to contemporary Italian architecture. Since January 2012 she holds the position of Editorial Director of the same publishing house and is the editor of the series "On the road," published by Forma Edizioni and dedicated to the cities of the world.

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