Prof Donald L. Bates (Chair – Architectural Design – Melbourne School of Design)will present Italian guest speaker Prof. Attilio Terragni.
In this talk Giuseppe Terragni’s grand-nephew Attilio Terragni will explore Terragni’s continued influence on modern architecture.
Professor Attilio Terragni runs his own studio “Attilio Terragni ingegnere architetto artista” since 1989. After graduating from the Polytechnic of Milan, he has been an assistant and partner of Daniel Libeskind, starting his career as an architect with the winning design for the Jewish Museum in Berlin, between 1989 and 1991. Since 1997 he has lived for three years in Melbourne for the construction of the international winning competition for Federation Square.
After returning to Italy he founded Cityedge italian partners of Daniel Libeskind, with which he made, among others, the Citylife project in Milan, the biggest in Europa, and the City Park project at Brescia. He currently teaches at the Master Pesenti at the Polytechnic of Milan and has been a visiting professor in Australia, Germany and Spain.
Giuseppe Terragni (1904 – 1943) was a pioneer of modern Italian Architecture and is recognised as a revolutionary figure in architectural design.
He conceived some of Italy’s most significant 20th century buildings, with his designs forming the nucleus of the Italian Rationalist School of architecture.
Much of his work combines a paradoxical combination of the avant-garde and the traditional, highlighting a balancing act between Terragni’s own penchant for modernism and the pressure to prioritise the traditional, amidst neo-classical and neo-baroque revivalism under Italy’s fascist government.
The exhibition “A Modernity Different From All Others: Giuseppe Terragni in Rome” will run until Friday 7th April at the Dulux Gallery, Melbourne School of Design. For more information click here
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