Author: Elisa Rubes

In the space of Milan, Monday, June 26 on the occasion of the release of «Casabella» 946, June 2023, a meeting was held dedicated to the topicality of modern Milanese architecture, to the Milanese relational path between history and progress.
A city not as monumental as Milan, with a very dense fabric, has concentrated in its growth on the relevance of the background as an indispensable condition for the city. The choral quality of urban space is the result of a set of architectures, contemporary with each other or distant in time, that individually express their expressive energy but at the same time aspire, resonating together, to build an environmental unity.

Part of the CASABELLAlectures, the event moderated by Federico Tranfa was attended by Marco Biagi, professor at the Politecnico di Milano, Nicola Braghieri, associate professor at the EPFL of Lausanne, the designer and researcher Massimo Curzi and Angelo Lunati of Onsitestudio.

The designer, already a guest of Theatro, has indicated as fundamental the value of the relationship between things, rather than the value of things themselves. The special Milanese trajectory seems to be a powerful reference for the ability to provide an extraordinary laboratory built of urbanity and for the ability to still indicate the possibility of an antidogmatic and gentle way of modernity.

In a time of serious emergency for Emilia Romagna, Theatro has chosen to organize a charity initiative to raise funds for EMERGENCY projects for places affected by the flood.
The same territory was explored with a curious gaze by the documentary film “Openings: Looks Beyond the Limit” by Francesca Molteni and Mattia Colombo screened on 29 June 2023 at Theatro. The film tells the world of architectural elements that embody the concept of threshold, openness and the relationship between interior and exterior. Along the Via Emilia, the geographical threshold par excellence, an image of Emilia Romagna is outlined through portraits and testimonies of historical figures of the territory, by Alfonso Femia, Alvaro Siza and Cino Zucchi for architecture to others such as the photographer Guido Guidi – pioneer of the new Italian landscape photography -, the sportsmen Davide Cassani and Andrea Stella, the president of Emergency Rossella Miccio and the king of smooth Raoul Casadei.

Guest yesterday in Theatro the Foundation and Order of Architects PPC of Monza and Brianza for its annual meeting.

Within the evening, the intervention of two partner companies of Theatro, Schneider Electric and Daikin, focused on the person at the centre: comfort, wellness, health and interaction with spaces.

The goal is to design sustainable, resilient, hyper-efficient buildings, focused on people,
so as to maximize their comfort.

From 15 to 21 May, Theatro’s main partners were at the Internazionali BNL d’Italia at the Foro Italico in Rome. The Internazionali, Italy’s most important tennis tournament, gave partners and guest designers the unique experience of seeing matches from exclusive seats as well as an out-of-the-ordinary networking opportunity.