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Theatro’s participation at Fuorisalone 2023 is in the April issue of Casabella. Theatro’s first Fuorisalone event is the exhibition Le Procuratie Vecchie in Piazza San Marco, dedicated to David Chipperfield’s restoration project described through Alessandra Chemollo’s photographs and scale models of the work. On the same days, the Tegel carpet collection designed by Chipperfield for Kasthall, a historic Swedish company and world leader in the production of carpets and textile coverings, was previewed in the courtyard at Via Vigevano 8.
Author: Elisa Rubes
The Nobel Prize for Architecture to David Chipperfield.
“As architects, we have a duty to explain and recognise the emotional role of architecture, because citizens feel an emotional involvement with the city and its buildings”. With these words David Chipperfield, guest speaker at Theatro on 2 December 2022, gave his vision of how architects should not only add value to society from the commercial point of view of buildings, but also work to increase their cultural value. This is his vision awarded the Pritzker Prize 2023, the most important prize in the world of architecture.
The elegance of his works derives from the sobriety with which they are imagined and designed and coincides with the functionality and accessibility of the spaces, particularly in the more complex interventions for recovery, redevelopment and transformation of the architecture of the past.
Domus: The value of history and archives for the design world.
A Domus article talks in detail about the renovation project of Rinascente in Piazza Fiume, Rome. The description of the recent intervention by Studio 2050+ in conjunction with Theatro, is accompanied by an extract from Domus 389, published in April 1962, where Gio Ponti presents the work of Albini and Helg as a modern design project, not so far from the logic of industrial design, “a unitary expression that defines architecture as a form of civilisation, on a cultural, social and technological level”. It is in the interpenetration of these floors that Ponti interprets the expert skills of the two architects in this building, which 2050+ has revealed in an archaeological operation between the archive and the body of the architecture.
From reading to podcasts, and paper to voice.
Also using stories to communicate in architecture. Maria Chiara Virgili, architect by training and author of the podcast Damned Architects, talked about how projects should follow the principles of narrative and communication to become memorable. The goal is to create exciting stories that engage the potential customer and generate a condition of trust.
In dialogue with Alvar Altissimo, he tackled some hot topics in architecture with a touch of irony, from Tom Wolfe’s From Bauhaus to Our House to The Simpsons. Because for Maria Chiara Virgili, good stories are never boring, but inspiring and at times, amusing.
The fourth curator of Insiders: Silvia Lugari
This is what travelling is all about, letting our whole selves become completely immersed in our surroundings. A total and all-embracing experience, the only one that allows you to truly understand a society, a history, a place. And of course, the architecture.
After the words of a cultural curator, a digital expert and a photographer, Insiders’ perspective is widening to include the dimension of travel. The first three editions for 2023 are curated by traveller and trained architect Silvia Lugari. She organises trips and cultural events around architectural themes. She collaborates with Casabella training casabella1928 and proviaggiarchitettura for which she organises national and international conferences, exhibitions, trips and workshops. She writes and contributes to artribune and professionearchitetto. Lugari’s articles are genuine invitations to travel, not only in spiritual or cultural terms, they are also curious, cultured, passionate, and full of many practical tips. Specifically, in each of the three newsletters, she will be sharing five tips for a good architectural journey.
The annual meeting of Theatro partners.
Working together with the common goal of good architecture. The annual meeting with the partners and supporters who make up the network through which Theatro operates is always an opportunity to look back on the road travelled and above all, to share news, plans, intentions and common challenges. At times like these, the value of the network that Theatro has built up over the years becomes tangible: companies and people who are very different from each other united by a common goal of good architecture.
New material hierarchies.
An energy-intensive building from the early 2000s has changed its skin and its core with a renovation intervention devised with a global approach: team work that has transformed an obsolete office building in Milan into incisive architecture with a bold personality. The creators of the intervention, wanted by SIC Sviluppo Immobiliare Corio, are architect, Stefano Belingardi Clusoni, founder of BE.ST Belingardi Stefano, design architect for the project and artistic director, and the team from L22 Civil Engineering, a Gruppo Lombardini22 brand which has planned, managed and made executive, the renovation project, coordinating architecture, systems, LEED certification, administrative practices, security and DL. The Theatro network of companies has acted as coordinator for the integrated design of the façade system, through the technical development of the full design package, definition of technical specifications with a turnkey approach, and the creation of an accurate, truthful overall budget. Theatro found the technical solutions for engineering and commissioning to implement the project by BE.ST Belingardi Stefano, taking part with the building envelope cluster that includes the expertise of partners Schüco, Thema, AGC and ASSA ABLOY Entrance Systems.
The growth of the network.
The year 2023 opens with many new additions to Theatro’s increasingly rich and varied network: Dahua Technology, Metalltech, San Marco, Schock, Alpi, Oikos, Verde Profilo. The network is expanding with new ways to support the architect. The shared focus is innovation combined with quality. This synergy will be expressed on a daily basis, with new projects in the pipeline and a programme of events.
Architecture on stage.
David Chipperfield, Carlos Moreno, Jorge Pérez-Jaramillo, Patricia Viel, Massimo Roj, Marcello Bondavalli, Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli are just some of the names that graced the stage at Theatro during 2022. Will you be there in 2023?
Green Cities: the 15-minute city and the case study of Medellín.
City-workshop: at Theatro, on 24 October 2022, the guests were Carlos Moreno, creator of the 15-Minute City concept, and Jorge Pérez-Jaramillo, Colombian architect, urban planner and university professor, who engaged those present with the lecture ‘Medellín. Regeneration of the incomplete city’. The Colombian city case study tells of South American intensity and speed, very different from European ones. The growth of the city, founded in an area of water, flood plains and mountains, has characteristics that deserve to be known, with all of its opportunities, challenges and difficulties. Jorge Pérez-Jaramillo’s lesson reminds us that it is possible to dream, and it is necessary to act. Moreno’s reflection also invites multiple questions, such as in which city would we like to live? How does the city respond to people’s needs? What elements are needed to achieve a good quality of life, regardless of the density of the area we live in? These are complex issues that need to be talked about because they affect everyone. Carlos Moreno was inspired by Elinor Ostram, Nobel Prize winner for economics in 2009, who explained the concept of the common good based on a polycentric vision based on ecology, proximity, solidarity and empowerment.
A great little lesson to seed in any project.