Event Type : Exhibitions

The exhibition offers a selection of 32 installations by Pierluigi Cerri, studied and redesigned thanks to a meticolous archival work. A graduate of Politecnico di Milano, Cerri taught here with Umberto Eco “Semiotics of architecture” (Faculty of Architecture, 1969-71) and from 2000 to 2010 as holder of the Laboratory of Interior Architecture at the School of Civil Architecture.

At Spazio Mostre Archivi Storici
From 29 marzo to 28 settembre 2022

Exhibition curated by Yuri Mastromattei and Lola Ottolini

Produced by Politecnico di Milano, Campus Life Division, Librarian Services and Archives Unit

Catalogue of the exhibition by Skira

Inaugurated by the lecture “Nature as the Client”
by Kjetil Trædal Thorsendel, co-founder of the Norwegian architecture firm Snøhetta,
the exhibition
Arctic-Nordic-Alpine
is an exhibition about contemporary architecture in vulnerable landscapes investigating the impact new creations could have on these extreme geographic climatic environments. Conceived and designed by Snøhetta, (installation in PoliMi by Matteo Ruta and Filippo Orsini) the exhibition is shown at the School of Architecture of the Politecnico Milano from June 7 to July 27.

The exhibition presents pioneering projects by the internationally renowned architecture and design firm Snøhetta, including the concept design for the energy-efficient Hotel Svart in Svartisen, the Arctic World Archive Visitor Center in Svalbard Island or the Path of Perspectives in Innsbruck. These buildings and interventions illustrate that architecture can make a significant contribution to a more sustainable use of nature with innovative strategies and solutions – in dialogue with landscape. It might seem out of order to focus on architectural interventions in less populated areas, as the biggest future challenges for planners and architects are to be found in our cities and urban areas. Snøhetta does, however, foresee more and more human pressure on areas outside of our cities.

Kjetil Trædal Thorsen, founding partner of Snøhetta, says: “To many, the periphery has become the new centre of interest and nature has become a carrier of meaningfulness. However, as contradictory as this might seem, some remote areas are becoming especially attractive to the ever-increasing desire of people to be part of something authentic. To secure the diverse sustainability offered in these places also in the future, it will in many cases be correct to do nothing. For the places already under pressure, it will be vital to provide facilities preventing further destruction. We acknowledge the fact that every new construction changes the existing condition of a place. With the passion to create, our imagination lets us involve the stories told by nature, translating these stories into architectural form and language”.

Arctic Nordic Alpine not only includes 20 outstanding architecture and design projects by Snøhetta – some realised, some planned. In addition, Snøhetta invited students to participate with their projects and included eight designs by students from the University of Stuttgart, the University of Innsbruck, the Oslo School of Architecture and Design and the Oslo Student Initiative 120 Hours.

The exhibition consists of a large-scale installation made of printed textiles, spectacular models and a video installation provide an inspiring experience for the visitors. A work in itself, it is designed to travel, to be reused and to be reexperienced in different formats. It was already shown at the Aedes Architecture Gallery, Berlin in 2020 and at the Jaroslav Fragner Gallery Prague in 2021.

Snøhetta
For more than 30 years, Snøhetta has designed some of the world’s most notable public and cultural projects. Snøhetta kick-started its career in 1989 with the competition-winning entry for the new library of Alexandria, Egypt. This was later followed by the commission for the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet in Oslo, and the National September 11 Memorial Museum Pavilion at the World Trade Center in New York City, among many others.
Since its inception, the practice has maintained its original transdisciplinary approach, and integrates architectural, landscape, interior, product, graphic, digital design and art across its projects. The collaborative nature between Snøhetta’s different disciplines is an essential driving force of the practice.
The practice has a global presence, with offices spanning from Oslo, Paris, and Innsbruck, to New York, Hong Kong, Adelaide and San Francisco.

INFO:
Opening
Tuesday 7 June 2022, 6.30 PM
Aula Rogers – Via Ampère, 2
Conceived and designed by Snøhetta, the exhibition is shown at the School of Architecture of the Politecnico Milano
installation in PoliMi: Matteo Ruta / Filippo Orsini
Atrio della Scuola AUIC, Via Ampère, 2
From 7 June to 27th July 2022
All days
8 AM – 9 PM
Free entrance

The Invention of a Language. Franco Purini and the Theme of Origin, 1964-1976
Curated by Roberta Albiero and Andrea Gritti with Beatrice Azzola and Elena Fontanella.

The exhibition, originally promoted and organized by the Archivio Progetti of the IUAV University of Venice and exhibited in collaboration with the Venetian university in the Chiostro dei Tolentini, has been revisited for the Milanese occasion by Roberta Albiero and Andrea Gritti, with the collaboration of Beatrice Azzola and Elena Fontanella.
The wide selection of projects and drawings on display refers to that part of Purini’s architectural production, realized between the second half of the 1960s and the first half of the 1970s, when the Roman architect, interpreting the profound instances of renewal that were crossing the architectural debate, started his own personal research on the grammar and syntax of composition.
Alongside the plates illustrating projects, sketches and studies appear in the exhibition that identify drawing as the privileged tool for thinking about construction, the city, the landscape, as well as the place from where the ideas of architecture originate.
The exhibition, which will open to the public on June 7, will be inaugurated by a lecture by Purini, introduced by Andrea Campioli, Marco Biraghi and the curators, which will be held in the Gamma room of the AUIC School’s Galleria del Progetto, starting at 3 p.m.

Franco Purini is currently Professor Emeritus of Architectural and Urban Composition at the Faculty of Architecture of La Sapienza University in Rome. After opening an architectural practice with Laura Thermes in 1966, he taught at IUSARC in Reggio Calabria (1977-1981), at the Faculty of Architecture.

INFO
Galleria del Progetto of the AUIC School of the Politecnico di Milano,
Via Ampère, 2
June 7 – July 29, 2022
Hours: Monday – Friday, h. 10 a.m. – 7 p.m.

The exhibition offers a selection of 32 installations by Pierluigi Cerri, studied and redesigned thanks to a meticolous archival work. A graduate of Politecnico di Milano, Cerri taught here with Umberto Eco “Semiotics of architecture” (Faculty of Architecture, 1969-71) and from 2000 to 2010 as holder of the Laboratory of Interior Architecture at the School of Civil Architecture.

At Spazio Mostre Archivi Storici
From 29 marzo to 28 settembre 2022

Exhibition curated by Yuri Mastromattei and Lola Ottolini

Produced by Politecnico di Milano, Campus Life Division, Librarian Services and Archives Unit

Catalogue of the exhibition by Skira

Inaugurated by the lecture “Nature as the Client”
by Kjetil Trædal Thorsendel, co-founder of the Norwegian architecture firm Snøhetta,
the exhibition
Arctic-Nordic-Alpine
is an exhibition about contemporary architecture in vulnerable landscapes investigating the impact new creations could have on these extreme geographic climatic environments. Conceived and designed by Snøhetta, (installation in PoliMi by Matteo Ruta and Filippo Orsini) the exhibition is shown at the School of Architecture of the Politecnico Milano from June 7 to July 27.

The exhibition presents pioneering projects by the internationally renowned architecture and design firm Snøhetta, including the concept design for the energy-efficient Hotel Svart in Svartisen, the Arctic World Archive Visitor Center in Svalbard Island or the Path of Perspectives in Innsbruck. These buildings and interventions illustrate that architecture can make a significant contribution to a more sustainable use of nature with innovative strategies and solutions – in dialogue with landscape. It might seem out of order to focus on architectural interventions in less populated areas, as the biggest future challenges for planners and architects are to be found in our cities and urban areas. Snøhetta does, however, foresee more and more human pressure on areas outside of our cities.

Kjetil Trædal Thorsen, founding partner of Snøhetta, says: “To many, the periphery has become the new centre of interest and nature has become a carrier of meaningfulness. However, as contradictory as this might seem, some remote areas are becoming especially attractive to the ever-increasing desire of people to be part of something authentic. To secure the diverse sustainability offered in these places also in the future, it will in many cases be correct to do nothing. For the places already under pressure, it will be vital to provide facilities preventing further destruction. We acknowledge the fact that every new construction changes the existing condition of a place. With the passion to create, our imagination lets us involve the stories told by nature, translating these stories into architectural form and language”.

Arctic Nordic Alpine not only includes 20 outstanding architecture and design projects by Snøhetta – some realised, some planned. In addition, Snøhetta invited students to participate with their projects and included eight designs by students from the University of Stuttgart, the University of Innsbruck, the Oslo School of Architecture and Design and the Oslo Student Initiative 120 Hours.

The exhibition consists of a large-scale installation made of printed textiles, spectacular models and a video installation provide an inspiring experience for the visitors. A work in itself, it is designed to travel, to be reused and to be reexperienced in different formats. It was already shown at the Aedes Architecture Gallery, Berlin in 2020 and at the Jaroslav Fragner Gallery Prague in 2021.

Snøhetta
For more than 30 years, Snøhetta has designed some of the world’s most notable public and cultural projects. Snøhetta kick-started its career in 1989 with the competition-winning entry for the new library of Alexandria, Egypt. This was later followed by the commission for the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet in Oslo, and the National September 11 Memorial Museum Pavilion at the World Trade Center in New York City, among many others.
Since its inception, the practice has maintained its original transdisciplinary approach, and integrates architectural, landscape, interior, product, graphic, digital design and art across its projects. The collaborative nature between Snøhetta’s different disciplines is an essential driving force of the practice.
The practice has a global presence, with offices spanning from Oslo, Paris, and Innsbruck, to New York, Hong Kong, Adelaide and San Francisco.

INFO:
Opening
Tuesday 7 June 2022, 6.30 PM
Aula Rogers – Via Ampère, 2
Conceived and designed by Snøhetta, the exhibition is shown at the School of Architecture of the Politecnico Milano
installation in PoliMi: Matteo Ruta / Filippo Orsini
Atrio della Scuola AUIC, Via Ampère, 2
From 7 June to 27th July 2022
All days
8 AM – 9 PM
Free entrance

The Invention of a Language. Franco Purini and the Theme of Origin, 1964-1976
Curated by Roberta Albiero and Andrea Gritti with Beatrice Azzola and Elena Fontanella.

The exhibition, originally promoted and organized by the Archivio Progetti of the IUAV University of Venice and exhibited in collaboration with the Venetian university in the Chiostro dei Tolentini, has been revisited for the Milanese occasion by Roberta Albiero and Andrea Gritti, with the collaboration of Beatrice Azzola and Elena Fontanella.
The wide selection of projects and drawings on display refers to that part of Purini’s architectural production, realized between the second half of the 1960s and the first half of the 1970s, when the Roman architect, interpreting the profound instances of renewal that were crossing the architectural debate, started his own personal research on the grammar and syntax of composition.
Alongside the plates illustrating projects, sketches and studies appear in the exhibition that identify drawing as the privileged tool for thinking about construction, the city, the landscape, as well as the place from where the ideas of architecture originate.
The exhibition, which will open to the public on June 7, will be inaugurated by a lecture by Purini, introduced by Andrea Campioli, Marco Biraghi and the curators, which will be held in the Gamma room of the AUIC School’s Galleria del Progetto, starting at 3 p.m.

Franco Purini is currently Professor Emeritus of Architectural and Urban Composition at the Faculty of Architecture of La Sapienza University in Rome. After opening an architectural practice with Laura Thermes in 1966, he taught at IUSARC in Reggio Calabria (1977-1981), at the Faculty of Architecture.

INFO
Galleria del Progetto of the AUIC School of the Politecnico di Milano,
Via Ampère, 2
June 7 – July 29, 2022
Hours: Monday – Friday, h. 10 a.m. – 7 p.m.

The exhibition offers a selection of 32 installations by Pierluigi Cerri, studied and redesigned thanks to a meticolous archival work. A graduate of Politecnico di Milano, Cerri taught here with Umberto Eco “Semiotics of architecture” (Faculty of Architecture, 1969-71) and from 2000 to 2010 as holder of the Laboratory of Interior Architecture at the School of Civil Architecture.

At Spazio Mostre Archivi Storici
From 29 marzo to 28 settembre 2022

Exhibition curated by Yuri Mastromattei and Lola Ottolini

Produced by Politecnico di Milano, Campus Life Division, Librarian Services and Archives Unit

Catalogue of the exhibition by Skira

The exhibition offers a selection of 32 installations by Pierluigi Cerri, studied and redesigned thanks to a meticolous archival work. A graduate of Politecnico di Milano, Cerri taught here with Umberto Eco “Semiotics of architecture” (Faculty of Architecture, 1969-71) and from 2000 to 2010 as holder of the Laboratory of Interior Architecture at the School of Civil Architecture.

At Spazio Mostre Archivi Storici
From 29 marzo to 28 settembre 2022

Exhibition curated by Yuri Mastromattei and Lola Ottolini

Produced by Politecnico di Milano, Campus Life Division, Librarian Services and Archives Unit

Catalogue of the exhibition by Skira