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Historic City Conservation and Urban Regeneration: Comparing Experiences
Politecnico di Milano, Auditorium – via Pascoli 53, Milano
20 March 2012
9:00-15:30

L’obiettivo è di esplorare e applicare le migliori pratiche nell’elaborazione di strategie per la conservazione e riqualificazione urbana per uno sviluppo sostenibile delle città. Durante l’incontro, concepito in modo da offrire molteplici punti di vista attraverso l’analisi di alcuni importanti casi studio, verranno affrontate tematiche legate all’urbanistica, all’architettura e all’economia.

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Plans, sections and elevations of the Stazione di Servizio are now available for download (both *.dwg and *.dxf format) here.
These drawings, produced by Enrico Pellegrini, are based on the original ones that Mario Bacciocchi submitted to the Milanese Municipality to achieve building permission.

This file was produced in DraftSight 

CI-Adaptive Reuse
Opening lecture
14 March 2012
h 10:15
classroom B4.1

Download Gennaro Postiglione presentation here [8MB].

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Tomorrow, March 13th 2012 Lab-Int-21012 is taking off.

Download the calendar in *.pdf format here and Gennaro Postiglione presentation here [8MB].

Dear lablog,

Please see the announcement of our next International AA Visiting School in Beirut (11-21 April 2012). Would you be so kind to post it to your network and to your students, graduates and young professionals?

We still have places available – there are also two partial scholarships left by 12 March.
Anyone interested can contact me directly.

Many thanks and kind regards,
Medine

The deadline for application is March 28th 2012 (for scholarships March 12th).

More information contact Medine Altiok and Stephanie Tunka:
mittelmeerland@gmail.com

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Check out HABITUS Workshop results here.

Interesting opportunity for students!

The Lions Club Novara Host has reserved a 6.000 € Study Grant for students that are willing to develop thesis projects on Alessandro Antonelli’s Casa Bossi.
Download the brief to find out more.

Read the complete article from Lavanguardia

A new page is born: architectural guide google-maps [archi-maps]. It collectes links to maps edited by lablog or by lablog network.

You are wellcome to contribute: send your proposal for a google-architectural-map and we will evalutate if to share it within our blog (mail at lablog dot org dot uk).

Here are the first ones we are pleased to share:

Luigi Caccia Dominioni residential buildings in Milan, 2012, by Lise Standaert

Barcelona tour-de-force, 2011, by Marco lampugnani

Crazy Madrid, 2011, by Enrico Forestieri

Milano for all, 2010, by Gennaro Postiglione

Lablog started many years ago, in 2005, with an opening pic taken on the spectacular terrace of this immense building: we were there with our students from POLIMI and, actually, many of us were using the Corbu hotel in the building, now partially destroied by the fire.

Here is the pic:

[by jep]

“ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences/School of Architecture”

This year the Course for Diploma ‘Adaptive re-use’ (Facoltà di Architettura e Società/Politecnico di Milano) will focus its interests on specific topics connected with the on-going research project MeLa (European Museums in an Age of Migrations) investigating the new role Museums and Exhibitions could/should play in a multy-cultural society where questions such as Identity and Citizenship are strongly impacted by phenomena like the Europanization of Europe and the massive presence of permanent migrants in what we consider to be ‘our’ Europe or ‘our’ Nation or ‘our’ City or even ‘our’ territory. Here you can download a brief project presentation.

Another object of interest is the European XX Century Conflict Heritage – tangible and intangible legacies wars left behind – with a special focus on the Atlantic Wall and WWII period. Here you can download a brief presentation about how we think to approach this difficult theme.

Students at POLIMI (Italian or Foreigners) interested in developing their Diploma in such a field, could take contact with me (Gennaro Postiglione) using contact blog-mail in the ‘about page’.

On the 27th of January, thanks to ENI, we entered the former Stazione Agip in Piazzale Accursio, the building that will be the subject of our next Design Lab.
The semester is going to take off on the 16th of March, the detailed program will be posted here soon… Stay tuned!

‘Flying devices’
Design studio course tutored by Ines Dantas, Walter Prenner
School of Architecture, Innsbruck

Martedì 24 gennaio 2012
ore 15.00
Auditorium del Politecnico di Milano
Via Pascoli 53

“Dialoghi” è un’occasione per parlare di architettura a partire da ricerche che provengono da altri saperi.
Ospite di questo seminario è Telmo Pievani,  professore associato di Filosofia della Scienza presso la Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione dell’Università degli studi di Milano-Bicocca. Pievani è autore di molti testi dedicati al tema dell’evoluzione, l’ultimo “La vita inaspettata” tratta dell’imprevedibilità della vicenda biologica. Il testo è un’ottima occasione per esplorare il problema delle “serie” e delle “sequenze” formali.
Mutazioni, selezioni, derive genetiche, migrazioni, schemi evolutivi sono alcuni dei termini che ricorrono nel testo e si offrono al confronto con la cultura architettonica.

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