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Modern Interior Architecture Case Studies and Historiography
Athens course 2015 @ POLIMI
Programme The course aims at introducing students to issues in interior
architecture of the 20th century, focusing on home and on public
interiors design & historiography through the work of masters and it is
arranged in collaboration with relevant scholars in the field at
international level. This gives the opportunity to gather together quite
an unique group of specialist in Interiors studies all over Europe.
Moreover the course pushes students to develop their own research
skills, encouraging the reflection upon questions of body and senses, on
domesticity and public space quality. The course includes visits to some
of the most significant architectures built in Milan during the fifties and
sixties, including ones by F. Albini, A. Castiglioni, C. De Carli, G. Ponti
and many others.
Course assignment
Part A:
- to upload the assigned case studies on the Atlas of Interiors blog
- to write a presentation text for each assigned case study
- to edit a specific bibliography for each assigned case study
- to edit a brief bibliography on each assigned case study author
- to link the assigned case studies with some key-word
Part B:
- to visit some significant architectures in Milan referred with the
culture of Interiors of the fifties and sixties with scholars of the POLIMI
Agenda
Monday 16/11
Welcome – Classroom E.P. 1
9.30 | Gennaro Postiglione, Politecnico di Milano (I)
Coordinator of Athens Program
Lecture - Classroom E.P. 1
10.00| Gennaro Postiglione, Politecnico di Milano (I)
The Paradigm of Interiors
11.00 | coffee break
11.30| Assignment A - Classroom E.P. 1
Presentation of the assignments on the Atlas of Interiors blog.
Assignments of case-studies and key-words. Students will be divided in
group and assigned to different tutors to start working
13.30| lunch break
15.30 /18.30 Assignment B
Visit of some significant architectures in Milan: Fondazione Prada
Tuesday 17/11
9.30/13.30 Assignment B
Visit of some significant architectures in Milan: Fondazione Castiglioni
+ PAC/Superstudio exhibition
13.30| lunch break
15.30/17.30 Assignment A - Classroom S.1.8 (Bld. N. 3)
Students work on case-studies
Lecture - Classroom Gamma
18.00 | Irénée Scalbert, Architectural Association (UK)
Architecture, neoliberalism and after
Wednesday 18/11
9.30| 13.30 | Assignment B
Visit of some significant architectures in Milan: Villa Necchi + Casa
Museo Boschi-Di Stefano
13.30| Lunch break
Lecture - Classroom S.1.8 (Bld. N. 3)
15.30/16.30 | Marco Borsotti, Politecnico di Milano (I)
The sacred space
16.30 /18.30 | Assignment A - Classroom S.1.8 (Bld. N. 3)
Students work on case-studies
Thursday 19/11
9.30/13.30 | Assignment B
Visit of some significant architectures in Milan: Sant Ildefonso, San
Francesco al Fopponino, San Francesco di Sales
13.30| Lunch break
Lecture - Classroom Y.1 (Bld. N. 11)
15.30/16.30| Francesco Lenzini, Politecnico di Milano (I)
Contemporary Public Spaces as an Expression of Global Identities
16.30/18.30 | Assignment A - Classroom Y.1 (Bld. N. 11)
Students work on presentations
Friday 20/11
9.30/13.30 Assignment A - Classroom S.1.8 (Bld. N. 3)
Students work on presentations
13.30/15.00 | Lunch break
15.00/17.30 | Students’ presentation - Classroom S.1.8 (Bld. N. 3)
17.30/18.00| Evaluation of the presented works and closing of the
course
18.00 | Farewell party (place TBD)
course content info
prof Gennaro Postiglione
+39 3357856394
arch Francesco Lenzini PhD in Interior Design and Exhibition
course logistics and practicalities
Dott.ssa Michela Gregori
Coordinator
Gennaro Postiglione Gennaro Postiglione is Full Professor at the Politecnico di Milano. His
researches focus mainly on reuse and valorisation of minor heritage – among
which also the one coming from conflicts - and on the relationship between
collective memory and cultural identity, putting the resources of architecture
in the public interest (www.lablog.org.uk).
Lectures
& Lecturers
Gennaro Postiglione The Paradigm of Interiors
Atmosphere is an emerging word both in the recent architectural debate (OASE no. 91/2014; Pallsma 2014; Barbara 2000; Zumthor 2006; Wigley 1988) and within the philosophical circle (Schmitz 1988; Böhme 2006; Griffero 2010) which brought up a growing interest towards the body through the space: a phenomenology of emotions. This means a completely change of paradigm if thinking of an epistemology of aesthetic rooted in Kant either Hegel philosophy, where the psyche and the metaphysic are an integral part of any aesthetic perception. In the new phenomenology drift, taking off from Hermann Schmitz theory (Schmitz 1988), there is the wish to affirm the existence of a phenomenology completely independent from psyche - and totally based on body perception of spaces through physical experiences: that is what Atmospheres are. As also other scholars have stated (Böhme 2006; Griffero 2010), Atmospheres are phenomena pre-existing (even if in an incomplete way) in the reality of the material world: they are not ideas nor mental state of mind but the concrete result of people meeting the world, experiencing the space, merging with the physical structure of places. Therefore Atmospheres are the result of cooperation between subject and object. They are not fully in the object, independently from the subject, nor totally in the subject – as a projective Epistemology would like. It is a productive relationship that helps to avoid both any subjective drift – on one hand – and any metaphysic of the object – on the other. As a consequence, Atmospheres results out of a productive meeting between the subject and the object, somehow very close to Roland Barthes textual theory (1975), where the point was not to discover the meaning that a text/work is supposed to contain, an univocal meaning crystallized into the work/product, but the production of a new ‘significance’ that “emancipates the signification statute and makes it plural”. There’s not actual distinction between the identity of the author and the one of the reader, and it is precisely this need to define the two roles that fall-off in the practice of text, refusing a metaphysic of the classic subject sustained by the traditional philology. The swift between the textual product – the space of the page – to the place where physical experiences are taking place makes clear how close the concept of Atmosphere is to Barthes theory.
Gennaro Postiglione is Full Professor at the Politecnico di Milano. His
researches focus mainly on reuse and valorisation of minor heritage – among
which also the one coming from conflicts - and on the relationship between
collective memory and cultural identity, putting the resources of architecture
in the public interest (www.lablog.org.uk).
Marco Borsotti
The Sacred Space
The very essence of creating Architecture inseparably links its history
to a building typology as special and unique as a church, where
precisely sign and meaning take on their absolute values, expressed
in representational, symbolic and functional form. The highly
delicate task that confronted modern architecture, therefore, was not
only to interpret a religious building’s civic purpose, but also its
ideological role. This is especially true in urban areas, where changes
are a faster and more complex phenomenon related to the
abandonment and renewal of various models — architectural, social,
economic — and modes — of life and relationships, but also, more
technically, of construction and technology. The response is an
uninterrupted journey in search of fulfilling architecture's ethical
nature, which, especially in the poetic silence of form, summons the
ability to evoke transcendental values, where the preeminence of the
interior is a testament to an understanding of the meaning of matter,
to the balance between lightness and gravity, and the intimate
dialogue with light, an immaterial material able to exalt and define
space.
Marco Borsotti, is architect, PhD, and Assistant Professor of Interior
Architecture at Politecnico di Milano, Department of Architectural Design
(DPA). His main research topics are interior design and exhibition design for
valorisation of the cultural heritage: in these specific field he has national and
international experiences. Articles, essays and projects have been published
by specialized review. He is Frate Sole Foundation–International Sacred and
European Architecture Award guest referee and Editorial staff board member
of Italian architectural and arts review Anfione e Zeto.
Irénée Scalbert Architecture, neoliberalism and after
Half a century ago, it was still possible to believe that architecture was
made for the greater good of all. This conviction became eroded by the
awareness arising in the 1960s that architecture, like other industrial
objects, is a consumer product: architecture must sell. From the late 1970s
onwards, the conviction became further eroded by the realisation that
architecture may be ultimately driven by the market, by developers and
speculation in real estate, more than by consumer satisfaction. Rem
Koolhaas’s text, Junkspace, describes architecture as a by-product of
modernity, as its waste. Junkspace seems to demontrate that the core value
upon which architecture had been founded, that of a professional design
service, is no longer relevant. Beyond Junkspace, there is nothing except
economic activity. The financial crisis of 2008 changed all this. The faith in
the rationality of markets collapsed and austerity now prevails. In turn a
period of soul-searching has begun. 7 years later after the crisis, no clear
answers have been found to justify the existence of the profession and
explain its vocation to the public. Several possibilities will be explored under
broad thematic headings including the everyday, ornament, craft, nature
and the social. In some respects, architects made significant contributions in
these areas. In other respects, shortcomings will be exposed and alternatives
will be suggested.
Ireneè Scalbert is an architecture critic based in London. He graduated
from the Architectural Association in 1982. He has taught at the Architectural
Association between 1989 and 2006, first as a Unit Master in the
Intermediate School and last as the person responsible for the History and
Theory programme in the first three years of the curriculum. In the 2000s, he
was Visiting Design Critic at the GSD, Harvard. In 2013-14, he held the
Sigfried Giedion chair of architecture at Paris-Malaquais. He currently
teaches at SAUL, University of Limerick, Ireland and at the school of
architecture, Cambridge. He has published numerous articles and essays
notably on the work of James Stirling and Alison and Peter Smithson. He is
the author of the book A Right to Difference: The Architecture of Jean
Renaudie (AA, 2004). His most recent publication is Never Modern (Park
Books, 2013). He has been a member of the editorial board of AA Files since
1998.
Francesco Lenzini Contemporary Public Spaces as an Expression of Global
Identities.
During the 20th century, contemporary culture noticed the progressive
destructurization of society, which led to great changes in the way in which
reality is commonly elaborated. The phenomenon of globalization linked to
the extraordinary development of real and virtual communication systems,
has led to a significant loss of many activities which traditionally took place
in public spaces. This does not however mean that public spaces no longer
reflect the social system: other types of interaction have taken the place of
more traditional activities, highlighting the presence of more widespread,
global communities which can be recognised by means of conventional codes
which are no longer restricted to specific cultural or geographical
boundaries. These nomadic communities, be they fitness fanatics, rock
lovers, skateboarders or flash mobbers, take over public spaces and use them
for new activities. Consequently public spaces change, adapt and become
equipped for their new meanings. By analysing a sample of projects which
take place in these open spaces today we can find significant analogies
linked to these shared practices, which turn out to be a tangible expression of
new global identities.
Francesco Lenzini: Architect, Ph.D. and currently Adjunct Professor in
Interior Design at Milan’s Politecnico. After a Master’s Degree from Venice’s
I.U.A.V. (2006), he completed postgraduated studies with an International
Master’s Degree at Roma Tre University (2008) and a Ph.D. in Interior
Architecture and Exhibition Design at Milan’s Politecnico (2014) . Since 2007,
he has been involved in educational activities at various universities in Italy
and abroad. Author of several essays included in books and conference
proceedings publications, his reaserch mainly focuses on transformation
projects for public spaces.
ATHENS Course Tutors
ATHENS Course
Students
Ioulia Aslanidou Thibaut Abergel Hoessein Alkisaei Lucie Bílá Adela Bimova Anne-Sophie Birnkammer Pierre Boutaut Maria Braga Pestana Cristina Brambilla Katarzyna Burzyńska Iva Cermakova Nicolas Chabriac Rebecca Daum Guillaume De Bruycker ZuzannaDudzicka Aneta Dvorakova Antoine Estienne Ondřej Falc Virginie Faure Monica Fontana Janine Ganserich Lucia Gonzalez José Gutiérrez Zoltán Gyurkó Ondrej Hamrsmid Herman Hellenes Gilles Hendrickx Anja Hoehl Katharina Marliese Höfer Petra Holasova Paulina Jachyra Laure Jourdan Ilgaz Kayaalp Olga Khrutska Elisabeth Kneisz Frieder Knöller Florence Kocher Agnieszka Kuklinska Jonas Laenens Lauriane Le Flour
Nils Lefevre Fanny Lenglet Hui Lin Regina Manuelito Katarzyna Markowicz Nira Martín Vanessa Matos Guilhem Mauran Vasco Mayer Farah Mechrek Pedro Meneses Mieke Motmans Vasiliki Papadimitriou Maria Pérez Thomas Pieters Ilaria Pittana Alfonso Portabales Jan Pospichal Ignacio Ramos Unceta Johanson Raposo Stepan Raska Nicolas Rosseel Marion Roullet Doro Rütten Simona Sabáčková Lisa Schubert Raquel Solano Rudolf Süsser Petr Šuma Wenwen Sun Lionel Thienpont Barbara Trojer Aykut Turfanda Natalia Vargova Vit Vondracek Bertrun Waldhans Korinna Weber Yunpeng Zhao
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