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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.
Author: Elisa Rubes
Edoardo Tresoldi, between poetry and design.
Artist, Edoardo Tresoldi is famous for his environmental installations – veritable architectures – in which the transparency of the wire mesh dissolves boundaries and transcends the space-time dimension. At Theatro he shared his own personal research on the enhancement of the landscape, between art and the world, between matter and absence, and between light and shadow.
Theatro's social commitment to TOG.
Theatro actively supports the new TOG centre, which has been offering free treatment and rehabilitation to children with complex neurological disorders since 2011. This heartfelt collaboration works on two parallel levels: through strategic and technical advice to planners and owners, and also through fundraising. Theatro’s commitment is focused on the collection needed to set up a room to provide mental support and a friendly area for families, one of the many manifestations of TOG’s care and concern for young patients and their loved ones. The support service is essential to help parents and caregivers with the existential and emotional fatigue that they undergo. In the new centre, special attention will also be paid to the siblings of the children looked after in TOG.
Virtuous building according to Casabella.
TOG’s new headquarters project is a virtuous example of how Theatro operates: of the problems it is able to solve, the design potential it can express, and the strategic and technical advice it is able to provide to designers and clients. Combining technical skills and heart.
The third curator of Insiders: Marcello Mariana
When I enter a room, I observe how the light falls and draws the setting, and I try to capture that. And if the time is not right, I listen and wait. In the end, photography is really a very simple concept.
After Federica Sala’s suggestions and Riccardo Crenna’s practical advice on the use of social media, the next three Insiders newsletters looked at architecture from the perspective of photography. A founding theme outlined for Theatro by photographer Marcello Mariana with his passionate, curious and low-profile attitude through three nuclei of meaning: light in the construction and representation of space, the use and interpretation of living elements within architectural photography, and finally, a reflection on the return of analogue photography in a world now fully converted to digital.
Domus: Theatro as a space for design and ideas.
Domus has grasped the essence of Theatro as an independent reality that unites leading companies in the field of architecture and design. The common goal is to promote design inspired by wellbeing and liveability in a constant dialogue with all the actors involved.
From restoration to transformation.
On the occasion of the sixtieth anniversary since its inauguration, the Rinascente in Piazza Fiume, Rome was subjected to a complex restyling intervention involving, in succession, the shell, facing and different floors so as to allow the normal continuation of retail activities. The restyling and urban improvement of the building designed by Franco Albini and Franca Helg in the period 1957 to 1961 were conceived in respect with the historic building. The focal point of the project is the intervention on the exterior by Studio 2050+ di Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli, to which Theatro contributed with the joint involvement of four companies in its network – Thema, Schüco, AGC Flat Glass Italia and Resstende – in a balance between restoration and conversion, with architectural sensitivity and technical expertise. To show that the design is a concerted effort, requiring the collaboration of different skills and professional expertise, each floor has been designed by a different architectural firm. Studio 2050+ worked on the ground and sixth floors, wholly dedicated to food. The first and fourth level are the work of DWA Design Studio; the second and fifth were allocated to architect Paolo Lucchetta. The basement is by Florence-based firm, Fabbricanove, while the third floor was curated by Studio Wok.
Interni: Meet, think, build.
In the story dedicated to Theatro, Interni’s accent goes to the tagline – Meet, think, build – which traces the ideal line of the network and of the Verano Brianza site, a meeting place for people, a space for thought, and for design and development.
The qualities of Theatro according to Il Foglio del Mobile.
How was Theatro born? What are the needs from which it was born? The Foglio del Mobile explains this in detail, explaining that Theatro is a unique reality in the landscape of aggregations for architecture, a player who has been able to assert an effective model to be a reliable partner alongside designers.
The Renzo Piano World Tour in Entebbe.
The dream of every architecture student, the Renzo Piano World Tour is an opportunity for education and study by travelling around the world to discover the architecture of Renzo Piano and other famous architects: it is made available tofour young graduates by the Renzo Piano Foundation together with other institutions. Among the stops on the tour: Emergency’s Children’s Surgical Hospital in Entebbe, Uganda, to which Theatro contributed expertise and passion.