The Culture of the City is a pluriannual architecture summer school experience. In this occasion, part of the organization s network will meet in Torino, to discuss the value of workshops as teaching tools for architecture. This winter forum will be a two days meeting with open lectures from international scholars and round tables open to students and scholars. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss on the state of art about architecture workshops experiences during university. The Organizing Secretary and the Scientific Comittee thank Politecnico di Torino, all the lecturers and everyone who gave his help for the realization of this event. Thanks to a Politecnico di Torino funding for student projects. Scientific Committee Antonello Alici, Luca Barello, Annalisa Dameri, Paolo Mellano, Nicholas Ray, Niccolò Suraci Organizing Secretary Luca Barello, Emanuele Protti, Niccolò Suraci
Monday morning, February 8 th h. 9:30-13:30 Open Lectures Sala dello Zodiaco Paolo Mellano Politecnico di Torino - Director of DAD (Dipartimento di Architettura e Design) Opening and greetings Nicholas Ray University of Cambridge On the teaching of architecture, and the role of precedent. Antonello Alici Università Politecnica delle Marche The journey as an instrument for knowledge Giacomo Pirazzoli Università degli Studi di Firenze GreenUP - a Smart City TED+Workshop format Luca Barello atelier mobile Education through Building
Monday afternoon, February 8 th h. 14:30-16:30 Round Tables Sala dello Zodiaco Building Sites Workshop on construction with the support of technicians and academics Chairmen: Luca Malvicino - Luca Barello Urban Notebooks Urban studies workshop: reading historic spaces and restoring the territory Chairmen: Bethan Watson - Antonello Alici High-Density Design Workshop on urban topics experimenting solutions in condensed design sessions Chairmen: Danilo Marcuzzo - Giovanni Bellucci Self Organized Workshops Workshop self-organized or proposed by students Chairman: Giulia Cerrato
Tuesday morning, February 9 th h. 9:30-12:30 Open Session - History and Architecture. Towards a Research Network Sala dello Zodiaco 10 minutes keynote speeches, made by the authors, on phd researches or graduation thesis. Michele Ferretti - Università Politecnica delle Marche The Fishmarket of Ancona designed by Gaetano Minnucci: critical analysis, building and urban regeneration Relatore prof. Antonello Alici, correlatore, prof. Francesco Leoni. Alberto Geuna - Politecnico di Torino The city in the city: Berlin as a magnetic archipelago Relatori prof. Jean-Philippe Vassal, prof. Pierre Alain Croset. Beatrice Giunta - Università degli Studi di Padova A Pavilion for Alvar: from the study of the works to a project proposal Relatori prof. Edoardo Narne, correlatore, prof. Stefano Zaggia. Giulia La Delfa - Politecnico di Torino Living the Mediterranean Basin. Looking for a contemporary model Relatore prof. Silvia Gron Anna Pichetto Fratin - Politecnico di Torino Only few architects have the chance to design a whole city. Carl Ludwig Engel and the Turku Plan: an urban project for the Finnish contemporary city. Relatore prof. Annalisa Dameri.
Alice Pozzati - Politecnico di Torino Designing San Salvario. Hypothesis, debates and transformations between XIX and XX century Relatore prof. Annalisa Dameri. Monica Prencipe - Università Politecnica delle Marche (PhD Candidate) 1895-1950. The dissemination of Nordic Architecture in Italy. From Italian magazines to the History of Architecture by Bruno Zevi Tutor prof. Antonello Alici. Emanuele Protti - Politecnico di Torino The places of the third Industrial Revolution: spaces for new economies. Relatore prof. Matteo Robiglio. Michea Sciorra - Università Politecnica delle Marche Bequests and legacy of a great event. What will become of Milan EXPO? Relatore prof. Antonello Alici, correlatore, prof. Francesco Leoni. Niccolò Suraci - Politecnico di Torino Misprints, omissions and overlaps. The narration of the contemporary city Relatori prof. Silvia Gron, prof. Massimo Camasso. Michelle Vecchia - Politecnico di Torino New Turin Public Library. Proposal for a library inside Torino Esposizioni Relatori prof. Paolo Mellano, prof. Maurizio Vivarelli, arch. Raffaella Magnano, arch. Domenico Racca. Bethan Watson - University of Cambridge Acts of Memory: learning from significance to develop a reconstruction approach for post-disaster L Aquila Relatori prof. Ingrid Schroeder, correlatore, prof. Antonello Alici.
Scientific committee Antonello Alici, Luca Barello, Annalisa Dameri, Paolo Mellano, Nicholas Ray, Niccolò Suraci. Organizing secretary Luca Barello, Emanuele Protti, Niccolò Suraci. Giovanni Bellucci, Giulia Cerrato, Luca Malvicino, Danilo Marcuzzo, Guglielmo Sandri Giachino, Michele Santarelli. Lectures by Antonello Alici, Luca Barello, Giacomo Pirazzoli, Nicholas Ray, Michele Ferretti, Alberto Geuna, Beatrice Giunta, Giulia La Delfa, Anna Picchetto Fratin, Alice Pozzati, Monica Prencipe, Emanuele Protti, Michea Sciorra, Niccolò Suraci, Michelle Vecchia, Bethan Watson. Guest participants Carla Binci, Vladimir Bojkovic, Vo Ngdoc Duc, Eleonora Fanesi, Anna Khromova, Michela Galassi, Eleonora Gaudini, Paolo Sansano, Clara Urbinati. Thanks to everyone will participate and give his contribution to this event.