aesthetics in architecture | convention
Friday, 8 June 2018, at the Carpentry Museum Tino Sana in Almenno San Bartolomeo, the Permanent School of Living organizes “Aesthetics in architecture”, a convention that deals with the ability that architects need to have in order to combine aesthetics and content, so that the process of changing behaviours and lifestyles is more effective.
Friday, 8 June 2018 from 4:30 p.m. | 3 Professional Training Credits (CFP)
Free entry, registration required
Friday, 8 June 2018, at the Carpentry Museum Tino Sana in Almenno San Bartolomeo, the Permanent School of Living organizes “Aesthetics in architecture”, a convention that deals with the ability that architects need to have in order to combine aesthetics and content, so that the process of changing behaviours and lifestyles is more effective.
Is there in architecture any social aesthetic that can break through the barriers that all too often isolate architects from the complexity of projects involving people?
Or otherwise put, can aesthetics and content be combined in an architect’s visionary project, so that the process of chainging behaviours and lifestyles is more effective?
Aesthetics can undoubtedly be considered as the language of culture, provided that it is no longer merely seen as a reassuring paradigm of beauty or as a philosophy of art. Indeed, aesthetics is much more than that, it is the search for a way to represent meaning. It is a cultural practice necessary to define a personal and a collective identity. Aesthetics has little to do with an allegedly innate attitude of artists, architects or experts in the field; in fact, it is created based on personal taste, although it is influenced by the social conditioning of the particular times we live in. Aesthetics is the set of expressive forms influenced by need, desire, sensitivity, and economic and symbolic sense that characterize individuals, their relationships and the social space they live in (Giorgio Bonacorso).
It is clear that the architect’s work is totally immersed in this reality; however, in “Less Aesthetics, More Ethics”, Neil Leach argues that the aestheticization of architecture involves the removal of all social, economic and political concerns, i.e. of all “disrupting dimensions”. In this process, the political and social contents are absorbed and nullified, while the seduction of images opposes any social commitment, including implicit commitments. The aesthetics of architecture thus becomes the anaesthesia of architecture.
Programme
4:30 p.m. Registration of participants
5:00 p.m. Welcome and introduction by Guido Sana
5:15 p.m. Osvaldo Marchetti | Advanced skill technology
5:30 p.m. Emilio Barsacchi | Design and comfort in the control of air conditioning and heating systems
5:45 p.m. Mirko Berizzi | Architecture with dry stratified technology
6:00 p.m. Massimo Pastorino | Reaction to fire of wooden floors and relevant regulations
6:15 p.m. Edoardo Milesi | Aesthetics in architecture
6:45 p.m. Cristina Muccioli | The concept of grace in architecture. The goodness of sustainable beauty
7:30 p.m. Debate and then visit to the Tino Sana Carpentry Museum
8:30 p.m. Dinner buffet
Location
The convention is held at the Tino Sana Carpentry Museum in Almenno San Bartolomeo, in the province of Bergamo.
The Carpentry Museum was born in 1987 from its founder Tino Sana’s great passion for carpentry, and it is now considered a piece of highly valued cultural heritage.
“Those who visit my museum will feel what I feel when I see these objects and understand what they represent: commitment, effort, art and, above all, love for a trade as old as mankind.” This is what Tino Sana, who passes on his fascinating knowledge of old times, told about his lifetime passion. The Museum is always very active and organizes many events, meetings and activities to promote wood as a renewable and ecological raw material.
Info
Friday, 08 June 2018 from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Tino Sana Carpentry Museum
Via Papa Giovanni XXIII, 59
Almenno San Bartolomeo (BG), Italy
Free entry, registration required | 3 Professional Training Credit (CFP)
Association Scuola Permanente dell’Abitare
Via Valle del Muto, 25 – Albino (BG), Italy
+39 035772499 | info@scuolapermanenteabitare.org
