SpazioFMG per l’Architettura yearly programme, curated by Luca Molinari and Simona Galateo, starts with the results of the competition INTERMEDIATE URBAN LANDSCAPE curated by Giovanna Piccinno. The exhibit features 18 projects conceived within University LAB Competition (IULC2013) focused on medium-scale architectures that combine the performances of MaxFine stoneware and Active Clean Air & Antibacterial Ceramic. The following event, SECOND LIFE. THE NEW MILLENIUM HOTEL, explores three exemplary renovations within the European town fabric and opened to an international audience. In the centre of Amsterdam, the Arlov Conservatorium Hotel designed by Lissoni Associati that restores the ancient Rijkspostspaarbank by Daniel Knuttel, once Sweelinck Conservatorium headquarters; Barcelona Mandarin Hotel by Carlos Ferrater and Juan Trias de Bes, Patricia Urquiola and F3 paisaje and Town Hall Hotel by Rare Architecture studio that faced the delicate and protected heritage of the art deco old town hall of East London, designed by Bethnal Green.

MILANO WORK IN PROGRESS # 5 displays a single but fundamental building designed by Marco Zanuso and Pietro Crescini in 1967-1970. The exhibit shows the four projects by the same studios that were invited by Hines Italia, in 2012, to rethink the building façade and its still unused spaces in harmony with the whole renovation of this portion of the city.

On the occasion of Milan Design Week, FELTRINELLI + HERZOG & DE MEURON. A NEW URBAN PROJECT FOR MILAN studies the urban value and historical references –  from Aldo Rossi to Torre Velasca and some of the most ancient Milanese monuments – of the project for the new Fondazione Feltrinelli by the Helvetian studio. On the exhibit opening day Jacques Herzog lectures at Politecnico di Milano.

The open debate PENSARE LA CITTÀ DI DOMANI. L’ESPERIENZA DI TORINO LA VISIONE DI MILANO, in cooperation with Luca Ballarini, art director of Bellissimo studio and publisher of ITALIC, together with Giacomo Biraghi, Secolo Urbano founder and manager of Tavoli Expo 2015, is an occasion to compare the experience of Turin with the upcoming challenges of Matera (European Capital of Culture 2019) and Milan (2015 World Exposition).
URBAN ECOLOGIES #3 NEW TOWNS IN ASIA develops an insight on the new towns following the tradition started by Garden City by Ebenezer Howard, Ville Radieuse by Le Corbusier, Brasilia, Chandigarth and Guyan. The cases under study are: Masdar City, next to Abu Dhabi by Norman Foster and aiming at a zero emission and waste in the middle of the desert. Golden Hills developed by SOM along Cu De Vietnamese river and facing the heavy rainfall and flooding in the region; the turkish Kartal Pendik parametrically designed by Zaha Hadid. Last but mot least, the two cities conceived by KPF Kohn Pedersen Fox Associate that lectures on the opening day: the Chinese Meixi Lake on water and the South-Corean Songdo.
2013 calendar of events is concluded the second edition of the architecture and urban photography competition NEXT LANDMARK HELSINKI 2013 started by Floornature in co-operation with IUSVE, IUAV, Detail and Ottagono and with, METROGRAMMA. URALS, LANDSCAPES IN PROGRESS preview of the projects by Metrogramma studio in Chelyabinsk, in Western Siberia.

SPAZIOFMGPERL’ARCHITETTURA 2013
curated by Luca Molinari and Simona Galateo

Press Office
Ottoidee

Media partnership
Corriere della Sera
and
Comune di Milano

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INTERMEDIATE URBAN LANDSCAPE. INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY LAB COMPETITION (IULC 2013) by GRANITIFIANDRE and POLITECNICO DI MILANO
curated by
Giovanna Piccinno, Politecnico Di Milano-Scuola del Design (Spatial Design Team Work in co-operation with Brighton University
30 january – 3 february 2013

SECOND LIFE. GLI HOTEL DEL NUOVO MILLENNIO
7-22 february 2013
Projects by: Piero Lissoni; Carlos Ferrater, Con Juan Trias De Bes, Patricia Urquiola E Bet Figueras; Rare Architecture

MILANO WORK IN PROGRESS # 5
7 – 29 march 2013
Projects by: Park Associati; Lissoni Associati; Obr, Open Building Research; Studio Elementare

TALK GIAOIAOTTO
M21 march 2013 – 6.30 pm
anfredi Catella and Park Associati with Luca Molinari

FELTRINELLI + HERZOG & DE MEURON
A NEW URBAN PROJECT FOR MILAN
9 april – 10 may 2013

PENSARE LA CITTÀ DI DOMANI
L’ESPERIENZA DI TORINO LA VISIONE DI MILANO
23 may 2013, h 7 pm
Luca Ballarini and Giacomo Biraghi
in dialogue with
Ada Lucia De Cesaris, Milan deputy mayor in charge of City Planning and Private Building
Luca Molinari, architecture critic and professor at SUN, Seconda Università di Napoli
Matteo Robiglio, architect and professor at Politecnico di Torino
Paolo Verri, director of Matera European Capital of Culture 2019

URBAN ECOLOGIES #3 NEW TOWNS IN ASIA
6 – 28 june 2013
Projects by: Norman Foster, SOM, Zaha Hadid e Kohn Pedersen Fox Associate

NEXT LANDMARK HELSINKI 2013
FLOORNATURE INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN PHOTOGRAPHY CONTEST
3 – 25 october 2013

METROGRAMMA
URALS, LANDSCAPES IN PROGRESS
7 – 29 november 2013