OPEN DAY
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On the occasion of the Festival della Scienza 2024, the Renzo Piano Foundation is pleased to dedicate a day to the discovery and challenges of architecture with guided tours and a special conference dedicated to the theme of the city.
Open doors at the Renzo Piano Foundation. A journey to discover water projects.
Guided tours in the Foundation (Italian only)
"Villa Nave", the headquarters of the Foundation, is designed to be a space dedicated to young people and students through meetings with architects, workshops and visits to the "Archivio Vivo". On this special day, also on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of activity, the doors of the Foundation open to visitors to share the history of our Foundation and the work of Renzo Piano and his collaborators, especially that related to the theme of water projects in the city.
Date, time and location
Tuesday, October 29, from 10:00 to 17:30 (10.00, 11.30, 14.30, 16.00), Via P. P. Rubens 30a Genoa
Participation is free. Reservations are mandatory at the link Guided visits on Eventbrite
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Designing water. The rehabilitation of the city. Stories of projects through archive research
Conference with Boris Hamzeian and Alberto Grassetti, moderated by Lia Piano
Following the construction of the Centre Pompidou, with its sloping square to accommodate the crowds and culture, during the 1980s Renzo Piano experimented with exhibition installations that all had in common their proximity to water. From the design of a floating Boulevard for the 1989 Paris Universal Exhibition to the equipment for the International Exhibition “Christopher Columbus: the Ship and the Sea” at the Porto Antico in Genoa, Boris Hamzeian and Alberto Grassetti give voice to the archives of the Renzo Piano Foundation to trace the stages of a strategy that made the design of water a fundamental tool for the “mending” of the city.
The speakers
Boris Hamzeian. PhD École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, is an architect and architectural historian specializing in the post-war avant-gardes and so-called "technomorphic" architecture. The Centre Pompidou has commissioned him to continue his research on the history of the building. He is a visiting postdoc researcher at the AA School in London, a fellow at the Académie d'architecture and an associate professor at the ENSA de Saint-Etienne, where he teaches history and theories of contemporary architecture.
Alberto Grassetti. He is an architect, engineer and a PhD student in Architecture and Project Cultures. In 2022 he won the doctoral scholarship funded by the Department of Architecture of the University of Bologna and the Renzo Piano Foundation entitled "The redevelopment of the Porto Antico di Genova. The projects, the archive, the future perspectives". Since September 2024 he has been a visiting researcher at the Department of Architecture of the Delft University of Technology, collaborating with the PortCityFutures research group.
Date time and location
Tuesday 29 October, h 17:30 Villa Nave, Via P. P. Rubens 30a Genova
Language: Italian. Participation is free. Reservations are required at the link Progettare l'acqua on Eventbrite.