every Thursday – from March 2nd, 2023 to June 8th, 2023
CET 13:00 – 14:30 – AULA MAGNA – Lingotto
Lectures are open to everyone and streamed live on YouTube
AMATE (e odiate) L’ARCHITETTURA
14 anti – lectures to unfold the architectural discipline.
Hate Architecture.
Hate it for its uncertainties(and scarce recognition),its abstraction, and the inconsistency of its allusive thoughts, which seem to scatter but are seeds that grow into the magnificence of its forms and ideas.
Hate Architecture for its illusions (and broken promises), yet what beauty and creativity stem from.
Hate Architecture for the silence of architects who (would scream but) each day discover reasons to believe and write a better world.
Hate Architecture for the endeavour it witnesses, made of (all-nighters, crises, lack of money, awful clients) streets, buildings, monuments, and cities.
Hate Architecture, as you will (die) live with the odd eyes of an architect.
Hate Architecture as it cannot be unloved.
Program
| Date | Lecture | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Thu 02.03.23 | Introduction by curators | Link |
| Mon 06.03.23 EXTRA | Alvar Aaltissimo – Architecture, Satire and Memetics | Link |
| Thu 09.03.23 | Fulvio Irace – Amate l’Architettura | Link |
| Thu 16.03.23 | D.Poulios TPA – Landscape, Society and Culture | Link |
| Thu 23.03.23 | Bao Li – Nanjing Experiments | Link |
| Thu 30.03.23 | Paulo Moreira – Conflict and Reciprocity | Link |
| Thu 13.04.23 | Alessio Battistella – Low tech as a form of resistance | Link |
| Thu 20.04.23 | Francesca Hughes – What’s not to love? | Link |
| Thu 27.04.23 | Per-Johan Dahl – Practice + Disobedience | Link |
| Thu 04.05.23 | Lidia Gasperoni – Media of Transition | Link |
| Thu 11.05.23 | CANCELED | |
| Thu 18.05.23 | Davide Ruzzon – Turning architecture with humans | Link |
| Mon 22.05.23 EXTRA | François Dufaux – A brave new world? | Link |
| Thu 25.05.23 | Xiahong Hua – Change is a common Sense | Link |
| Thu 01.06.23 | Sandi Hilal – Learning from the Living Room | Link |
| Thu 08.06.23 | Sébastien Marot – Taking the Country’s Side | Link |
The 2023 edition of the ACC Lectures is titled “Amate (e odiate) l’architettura. 14 anti- lectures to unfold the architectural discipline” and it takes the imperative of Gio Ponti’s iconic book “Amate l’architettura” (In praise of Architecture), lit. Love Architecture!, as a partial suggestion that should be counteracted with hate for the discipline. The series is an irreverent hymn to architecture, in its wonderful and painful character, full of contradictions and obstacles, to confront the reality of today’s difficulties in the profession and research made of geopolitical, environmental, and cultural instability.
Guests active in the theory and practice of architecture and related fields are invited to present their work in its specificity, keeping the backdrop critical question: what are the reasons to love and hate architecture?
Unfolding their experiences of hate as well, aims to outline critical reasonings on architecture in contemporary society, regarding questions on its role, social usefulness, and purpose; all due to architecture students whom, with eyes sparking with intelligence, and their innocent souls, are still figures “engaged by that perfectionism effort that generation to generation saves our world“.
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