Structures

SERIES: Building Telling Architecture
SPEAKER: Maria Claudia Clemente and Francesco Isidori, architects
DATE: Thursday, March 28, 6 p.m. 
 
The lecture, titled "Structures," will analyze the relationship between Abstraction and Constructiveness through the concept of structure, a polysemantic term around which the firm's research revolves. If the structure (load-bearing) is, on the one hand, an essential element of architecture, without which it could not be built; on the other hand, it refers to an intrinsically abstract concept concerning the constitution and distribution of elements that, in a relationship of correlation and functional interdependence, form an organic complex. Thus, in the term structure coexist the two seemingly opposite poles of abstraction and construction that find a synthesis in the form-architecture. The lecture will focus on analyzing the methodological and cultural implications of a structural conception of architecture.

Labics is a Rome-based architecture and urban planning firm founded in 2002 by Maria Claudia Clemente and Francesco Isidori. The studio's name - Labics - expresses the concept of a laboratory, a testing ground for advanced ideas. Combining theoretical approach with applied research, the firm's field of interest extends from the small scale of interiors to the scale of urban master plans, crossing the different scales and complexities of design.

Free admission while places last. 
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