Accademia di architettura di Mendrisio - AAM

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The Academy of Architecture of the Università della Svizzera italiana is pleased to announce the exhibition “The School of Mendrisio. A Project - Teaching Activities 2022/23”, curated by Marco Della Torre and Manuel Orazi, that will be on display to the public from 23 February to 30 June 2024 at the Teatro dell'architettura Mendrisio. The exhibition opening will take place on Thursday 22 February 2024, at 6.30 pm., with a contribution by the Director of Academy of Architecture, Prof. Walter Angonese and of the two curators.

The conference will address the long and rich history of Swiss-Italian relations in architecture by bringing together more than 30 academics from more than 15 institutions who will partake in four thematic panels and one roundtable. By featuring a broad chronological framework, the event will shed light on the architectural relationships between Switzerland and Italy since the early modern times, focusing on the intense exchanges of the last seventy years.

Its professional nature notwithstanding, architecture is seldom studied through the activity - design - which characterises its material development. Initiated by the EPFL Doctoral Program in Architecture and Science of the City (EDAR), the 2023 edition of the public seminar SCHOLARS in Transition seeks to focus on the particular, still little understood, type of research, done ‘through’ design.

The aim of the symposium held on 10th of July 2023 at the Accademia di architettura di Mendrisio is to propose a series of heterogeneous interventions that can enrich contemporary urban analysis from original and innovative perspectives. The call is mainly addressed to critical, interdisciplinary theoretical approaches and the presentation of concrete case studies from which wider lessons can be drawn.