It's okay

SERIES: Building Telling Architecture 
SPEAKER: Aldo Aymonino, architect
DATE: Thursday, Feb. 15, 6 p.m. 

The lecture addresses the issue of the difference in scale that an architect faces during his or her professional life. While, on the one hand, it seems that society and clients (both public and private) constantly demand an increasingly specialized professional, on the other hand the same clients demand a consultant who "solves problems" that arise in everyday life, whether in seemingly very simple or highly complex situations.
In this "gap" of apparent contradictions, the architect may be the professional figure needed because of the balance of his knowledge between the humanities and the sciences. A number of projects, ranging from spatial and landscape scales to industrial design of street furniture objects, will show how, through time, light and space, perceptions of our contemporary cities and landscapes are shaped.
 

Aldo Aymonino (Rome 1953), architect, graduated in 1980 from Sapienza University in Rome with Ludovico Quaroni. He has been a member of the Order of Architects, Planners, Landscape Architects and Conservators of Rome and Province since 1981. He has been teaching architectural and urban design since 1986, first at the "Gabriele D'Annunzio" University of Chieti-Pescara and then at the Iuav University of Venice, where since 2000 he has been a full professor at the Department of "Design Cultures," of which he was Director from 2018 to 2021. He has been UNESCO Chair for Heritage and Urban Regeneration, Guest Critic for the Universities of Waterloo and Carleton of Canada, Washington State and Cornell of the USA. He has published essays and projects in international journals and has written Function and Symbol in the Architecture of Louis Kahn (1992), Contemporary Public Spaces: Architecture at Volume Zero (2006 - with Valerio Paolo Mosco), Architecture at Zero Cubature (2007) and Zodiac 1957-1973: an Italian History (2023 - with Federico Bilò). As a design architect, he has built various public and private buildings and won national and international architectural design competitions, worked for the IBA project in Berlin, and was invited to the 1991, 2002 and 2023 editions - in the People's Republic of China Pavilion - of the Venice Biennale, the 1995 Milan Triennale, and the Royal Institute of British Architects' "Architecture on the Horizon" exhibition held in 1996 in London. He is currently a consulting designer for the "Venezia Nuova" Consortium for the ground works of the mobile barrier system for the protection of the Venice lagoon (MOSE Project) and for the Bonomi Group of Brescia for the design of furniture elements for the construction of a rail-transit line.

Free admission while places last. 
Reservation at the following link.