Italy Under Construction

Italy Under Construction In a globalized yet conflictual world, how can architecture reevaluate its cultural and political role and enable practises of identification and belonging?

Italy Under Construction is a new programme of exhibitions and lectures on contemporary architecture in Italy, presented by the Italian Cultural Institute in Toronto. What role does architecture occupy in shaping the relationship between regional cultures and international forces? Between the global hunger for the architectural icon and claims for the authenticity of regional craftsmanship, what i

s the architect’s agency within and against contemporary modes of architectural production? Italy Under Construction is a new programme of exhibitions and lectures on contemporary architecture in Italy. Presented by the Italian Cultural Institute in Toronto, the series investigates contemporary architectural practice and its interaction with culture, cities, and landscapes. The programme will bring together emerging and established voices from the architectural community, both from Italy and North America. With Toronto serving as a venue for transatlantic exchange, we hope to open a conversation on the relevance of new architecture in Italy within a broader discussion on architectural design challenges in a globalized world. Italy Under Construction will run for three years and host two exhibitions per year- the first will open in the fall of 2015 and the second in spring 2016. The fall series of exhibitions will focus on a pair of established architects, initiating a dialogue between different approaches to research, local context, and national processes. The spring exhibition is thematic in nature and will present new buildings from a selected group of architects organized around pressing contemporary issues such as the ambitions and opportunities of building public architecture, housing and urbanism, and the domestic landscapes of the private house. Director Alessandro Ruggera
Curator Roberto Damiani
Exhibition Design Nuria Montblanch, Roberto Damiani
Graphics + Web ZEEMA
Editor Kevin Murray

COMING SOON in January 2021! After a long time in the making, Italy under Construction is coming back with the new exhib...
12/05/2020

COMING SOON in January 2021! After a long time in the making, Italy under Construction is coming back with the new exhibit Emerging Ecologies. Italy / Canada B2B, stay tuned!

Few pics of the current exhibition Palimpsests and Interfaces: Architecture by Renato Rizzi and Cino Zucchi. Up until Ma...
04/10/2017

Few pics of the current exhibition Palimpsests and Interfaces: Architecture by Renato Rizzi and Cino Zucchi. Up until May 5 Istituto Italiano di Cultura

SAVE THE DATE!The Istituto Italiano di Cultura is pleased to present the exhibition Palimpsests and Interfaces: Architec...
03/08/2017

SAVE THE DATE!
The Istituto Italiano di Cultura is pleased to present the exhibition Palimpsests and Interfaces: Architecture by Renato Rizzi and Cino Zucchi Architects, the third exhibition in the series Italy Under Construction.

Through original models, drawings and photographs of selected work from the two architects, the exhibition explores the ambition to design buildings as cultural narratives and agents in the interaction of private and collective life.

Palimpsests and Interfaces: Architecture by Renato Rizzi and Cino Zucchi opens on March 29, 2017 at 6.30pm at the Italian Cultural Institute in Toronto. The visiting architects will deliver a lecture on their work on March 30 at 6.00pm at John H. Daniels, Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, Room 103.

10/30/2016

Common Places against Commonplaces: Italian Public Architecture by Giovanni Corbellini The top-down paradigm according to which the idea and role of the modern architect was conceived, has long ago dissolved in a fragmented and contradictory...

09/02/2016
Public Ambitions goes to Ottawa! After a successful launch in Toronto, the architecture exhibition Public Ambitions open...
09/02/2016

Public Ambitions goes to Ottawa! After a successful launch in Toronto, the architecture exhibition Public Ambitions opens in Ottawa at Galerie SAW Gallery on Thursday October 6th, 2016
at 6.30 pm.

07/30/2016

We are happy and honoured to announce that Italy under Construction will show Renato Rizzi's work in November 2016. Stay tuned!

We are happy and honoured to announce that Italy under Construction will show Renato Rizzi's work in November 2016. Stay...
07/30/2016

We are happy and honoured to announce that Italy under Construction will show Renato Rizzi's work in November 2016. Stay tuned!

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