Getting to know the city: lectio magistralis by architect Franco Purini in Padua, October 9 at Palazzo della Gran Guardia, the final event of Padua 2015 architecture.
“Knowing the city” is the title of the conference starring the famous architect Franco Purini, expected in Padua within the Padova 2015 architecture event organized by the Architecture Association.
The lectio magistralis, scheduled for 9 October at 18.30 pm, is located in Palazzo della Gran Guardia, in the same frescoed hall where the projects of the five architects who participated in the International Architecture Workshop are exhibited: Max Dudler, Franco Stella, Paolo Zermani, Bruno Messina, Josè Ignacio Linazasoro.
“The presence of the architect Franco Purini at the conclusion of the Padova 2015 architecture event underlines and confirms the programmatic intentions of the association. The architect will comment on the study areas and the works on display at the Gran Guardia and will present some of his projects, starting with the Eurosky Tower in Rome ", says Cinzia Simioni of the Architecture Association.
Architect, essayist and university lecturer, Franco Purini is one of the main exponents of Italian neo-nationalism, in particular of the so-called designed architecture. With his intense design activity, always marked by great experimentation, he investigated the relationship between design and representation, city and architecture, architecture and landscape.
His drawings are kept in public and private collections including the Pompidou Center, the Frankfurt Architecture Museum and the Buenos Aires Museum of Fine Arts.
He taught in Venice, Reggio Calabria, Milan, Ascoli Piceno.
Among his most important projects, the public housing in Naples for the post-earthquake reconstruction program, the new Termini Station in Rome, the five squares of Gibellina in Sicily and the Eurosky Tower in Rome, under construction. "The Eurosky Tower is proposed as a clearly recognizable element, an authoritative and lasting metropolitan sign that represents an ideal gateway into the urban landscape, an architectural emergency that is becoming a strongly characterized place, a further element of the great Roman architectural narrative", he anticipated the architect.
In 1980 he was one of the architects called by Paolo Portoghesi to the Venice Biennale to participate in the installation “Strada Novissima”, which will become a manifesto of postmodern architecture. In 2006 he was the curator of the new Italian pavilion on the occasion of the XNUMXth international architecture exhibition of the Venice Biennale.
Since 2003 teaches at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Rome.
He is the author of numerous articles, essays and books including The didactic architecture (Reggio Calabria, 1980); Composing architecture (Bari \ Rome, 2000); Franco Purini. The works, the writings, the criticism (Milan, 2000); The equal city (Padua, 2005); The Italian measure of architecture (Bari \ Rome, 2008).
He is a member of the National Academy of San Luca and the Academy of Arts and Design of Florence.
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The exhibition of the projects of Padua 2015 all'11 architecture is open until October.
Knowing the city: keynote architect Franco Pure in Padua
