The appointments with the Casabella Lectures in collaboration with Casabellaformazione will resume.
The series of meetings aims to raise awareness of important but not obvious names among the exponents of the international architectural panorama and their most significant architectures.
20 March: João Gomes da Silva con Federco Tranda
8 April: Renato Rizzi con Francesco Dal Co
9 May: Jaume Mayol —TEd’A arquitectes con Francesca Chiorino
17 June: Christian Kerez con Michel Carlana
On 28 November, big names in international architecture joined sisters Barbara and Deborah Morseletto in a story in the history of the Morseletto Laboratory.
Mario Botta, Francesco Magnani, the Italian studio David Chipperfield Architects with Francesco Dal Co of Casabella have retraced the union between art and architecture since 1920.
The complete redevelopment of an obsolete office building of the late seventies in Milan, carried out by the integration of the skills of Lombardini22 and the Theatro team, was the protagonist of the meeting The ways to build. Site experience: Nervesa 21. On the stage of Theatro the designers Marco Amosso and Enrico Arrighetti, Luca Berdini, senior project manager of the client, Cromwell Property Group, Franco Mialich, managing partner of the project management company MCM S.r.l. shared their vision on the deep-processrefurbishing: a model of urban regeneration in which sustainability is the fundamental prerequisite, a virtuous example of teamwork and continuous research that distinguishes Theatro, as confirmed by the enthusiasm Cristian Tegas, Massimo Bottacchi, project business manager at Schüco and Roberto Galante, international building project manager at AGC.
New Roman transfer for the Main Partners of Theatro Thema Italia, Schüco International Italia srl, Duravit AG, Resstende Srl, AGC Glass Europe, Schneider Electric that on 19 and 20 October participated in ITHIC Italian Hospitality Investment Conference, the first international conference entirely dedicated to investments in the hospitality sector in Italy organized by Teamwork Hospitality.
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.
“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.
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.
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