thoughts on architecture between the ’60s and ’90s

Professional refresher course
OCRA Officina Creativa dell’Abitare
Via Boldrini 4 – Montalcino (SI)
06 July 2017 – 9:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.

Il convention
Under the patronage of the Order of Architects of Siena, Edoardo Milesi & Archos and the Permanent School of Living hold a convention with the aim of critically reviewing, through direct testimonies, the main aspects of the debate on architecture that took place between the ’60s and ’90s. A philological reinterpretation in search of the presumed evolution or continuity of the humanistic spirit that should distinguish the profession of architect.
The aim of the convention is not to remember the past of architecture, but to investigate it in a constructive way, so as to learn an objective lesson from it: the investigation starts from Japanese metabolism, moves then on to Florentine radicalism and Milanese experimentation as an alternative to academic training during the “student struggle” of ’67 and ’68, and ends with the environmental movement of the ’80s and ’90s.

Programme

09:00 a.m. Registration
09:20 a.m. Francesco Ventani: Welcome from the President of the Order of Architects of Siena
09:30 a.m. Edoardo Milesi: Architecture and the architect
10:15 a.m. Cristoforo Bono: The architects’ culture and didactic experimentation
11:30 a.m. Paolo Riani: Tokyo metabolism group
12:15 p.m. Marco del Francia: Between utopias and beyond radicalism in Florence, Vittorio Giorgini
01:00 p.m. Lunch break
02:00 p.m. Giuseppe Longhi: Finiteness of resources and infiniteness of expectations
02:45 p.m. Gaetano Berni: The head of the city
03:30 p.m. Vera Luciani: A dive into the landscape
04:15 p.m. Veronica Solero: Feng Shui, an ancient design method for a holistic view of living
05:00 p.m. Debate