THE POLITICAL DIMENSION OF ARCHITECTURE

TRANSNATIONAL DIALOGUES ON URBANISM SYMPOSIUM 2008
FLORENCE March 8, 2008
ISTITUTO DELGLI INNOCENTI,,

THIS EVENT IS ORGANIZED BY THE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY IN FLORENCE, L’OSSERVATORIO SULL’ARCHITETTURA DELLA FONDAZIONE TARGETTI AND THE MAGAZINE ABITARE.
This is the third in a series of “Transnational Dialogues on Urbanism”. The intention of the Syracuse University Program in Florence with this series is to engage in active manner the
contemporary discourses and practices taking place in Europe and the world today
This year symposium “the political dimension of architecture" will focus on the relation between architecture and the city. Too obvious for some, overcome by history according to others, this relation remains at the center of the issue/ debate of the relationship between form and politics.
The symposium proposes to examine the case study of Medellin Colombia. A rather unique case one may argue where architecture and small-scale urban interventions have been the agents of major political and social transformation. Sergio Fajardo is the former major of the city will be one of our guest speakers in the symposium. Fajardo’s administration carefully constructed a social and political program where architecture was at the center as both an agent and a goal in what can only be described as a substantial social and cultural transformation of the city and in the process opened new possibilities for architecture.
Other guest speakers will include Prof Elia Zenghelis a world-renowned architect and theoretician, and also an influential teacher who in 2003 was awarded the RIBA medal of excellence for architecture education. His work has been deeply involved in a reflection on the relation between architecture and the city in the contemporary society. And Stefano Boeri director of the magazine Abitare, architect and researcher, author of several book on contemporary urban phenomena
These presentations will be followed by a round table discussion with the participation of architects urbanists, artist historians etc.

due to a sad unforseen event alessandro rocca,
who was scheduled as a guest lecturer for today,
will be not able to be in florence.
the lecture will be postponed, the new date will be comunicated
as soon as possible.

the schedule for today will be a regular one...
4>5,30_intro to the final assignment for group 1
5,30>7_regular lecture

mid term presentations

mid term presentation
will be monday from 4.oopm to 7.oopm.
i've sent you via email a ppt template 20x20 slides
you have to change name and title and to paste into your slides
i will be in studio around 3.oopm a i'll need some help
in order to collect and paste together all the presentations

we will have two architects as guest crits
refreshments will be provided during the show
an aperitivo with our guests will be on after the presentation

crits and feedback will be on tuesday morning during regular class time

if no switch will be made the presentation will follow the list below
4.00>lee
4.07>sam
4.14>lindsay
4.21>kelly
4.28>jo
4.35>mearner
4.42>caitlin
4.49>chris
4.56>kristy
5.03>megmagraw
5.10>megmill
5.17>zev
5.24>kriso'gorman
5.31>jeff
5.38>jen
5.45>natasha
5.52>monica
5.59>justin
6.06>erica
6.13>kyle
6.20>decker
6.27>eva
6.34>ronit
6.41>nick
6.48>blake
6.55>seth

nove giardini planetari

Gilles Clément
Nove giardini planetari

Paesaggista tra i più noti e influenti d’Europa, teorizzatore del giardino planetario, del giardino in movimento e del concetto di terzo paesaggio, Gilles Clément è autore di numerosi saggi e romanzi. Con i suoi scritti ha, negli ultimi anni, raggiunto e in buona parte sedotto il pubblico italiano. Ha realizzato diversi parchi e giardini, sia pubblici che privati. Tra le maggiori opere i giardini de La Défense e il parco André Citroën, entrambi a Parigi, e il parco Matisse a Lille. Nello scorso autunno la casa editrice 22 publishing ha pubblicato, a cura di Alessandro Rocca, il volume Nove giardini planetari, che la galleria SESV di Firenze presenta attrverso un forum aperto.

Forum con Raimondo Innocenti, Bernard Micaud, Eva Parigi, Alessandro Rocca,
Matteo Zetti,
Modera Marco Brizzi

Martedì 12 febbraio 2008, ore 16:00
Galleria SESV, piazza Ghiberti 27, Firenze

In collaborazione con Istituto Francese di Firenze e Libreria LEF

just a cake...

teams for final

group 1
1_natasha+linds
2_jeff+sam
3_justin+jo (jujo)
4_m4(meghan mill + megan magraw)
5_chris+zev

group 2
1_protokyle
2_eva+mearner
3_caitlin+kelly
4_ronit+jen

group 3
1_reds blake+ryan
2_k2 (kristy+kristen)
3_lee+seth
4_(mon+er) ica

friday feb1st
site visit
certosa del galluzzo + pienza
schedule:
9.00am_ we leave from santa maria novella train station
10.00am_ certosa di ema: guided tour+sketching session
11.30am_ we leave for pienza
1.00pm_ arrival in pienza: free time around + eat
2.00pm_guided tour of palazzo piccolomini
3.00pm_pienza cathedral
4.00pm_free time
5.00pm_departure for florence
7.00pm_smn railway station

S(E)OULSCAPE_

Conference: January 24, 4 pm
Salone dei Duecento, Palazzo Vecchio
With: Chung Guyon, Joh Sung-yong, Kim Young-joon, Min Hyun-sik, Seung H-sang, Yi Jong-ho. Introductions by: Francisco Sanin and Pai Hyung-min. Gianni Biagi, Councillor for Urban Planning at the Municipality of Florence, Raimondo Innocenti, Dean of the School of Architecture in Florence, Marco Brizzi, curator of the SESV gallery of the University of Florence and director of iMage will attend.