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Spazio FMG Architecture takes centre stage
During FuoriSalone, FMG Fabbrica Marmi e Graniti will present “Spazio FMG”, a location which will host the exhibition by renowned Italian architect De Lucchi, and the radio station Good Morning Architecture in the run-up to the XXIII World Congress of Architecture, of which it is sponsor.
Turin 2008 is the culmination of a long journey, beginning on the 18th of April at Spazio FMG, the ex-Milanese showroom of the Italian company, today re-designed by FMG to make it an ideal location for celebrating the world of architecture through a series of events, exhibitions and international events, organised by authoritative architect and critic Luca Molinari (*1).
Via Bergognone, 27 from the 18th to the 23rd April will become a place where the culture and passion for architecture meet.
The opening is scheduled for the 19th of April at 6pm with the participation of two important names: architects Michele De Lucchi and Leopoldo Freyrie. Opening Spazio FMG will be the exhibition by De Lucchi entitled “Le Torri di Adjara“ (“The Towers of Adjara”), a region characterised by high buildings in Soviet style, today replaced by new constructions.
The Medea Hotel, a work whose forms combine history and modernity, will be the first project to be created by the Italian architect. Spazio FMG also hosts Good Morning Architecture, the official radio station of the World Congress of Architecture, which broadcasts interviews and comments from figures of worldwide renown in streaming on www.gma-radio.org.
With the creation of Spazio FMG, FMG Fabbrica Marmi e Graniti has set in motion a new series of events, which will end in June 2008 with the XXIII World Congress of the UIA, of which the Italian company is sponsor.
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(*1) Luca Molinari
Born in 1966, Luca Molinari graduated from the Faculty of Architecture in Milan in 1992 following a period of work and study at the Faculty of Architecture–TU Delft/Holland (1989) and the ETSAB in Barcelona/Spain (1990-92).
He is Associate Professor of Contemporary History of Architecture at the Second Faculty of Architecture “Luigi Vanvitelli”, Naples.
He has held workshops and conferences at numerous faculties of architecture, both in Italy and abroad, and has been guest professor at the Fine Arts Academy, Faculty of Architecture of Guang-Zhou (China).
Since 1993 he has been Promuvendus on the Ph.D. course co-ordinated by professor Alexander Tzonis at the Faculty of Architecture TU Delft with a work of research on Ernesto Nathan Rogers and the culture of the Italian post-war period.
He writes for and collaborates with Italian and foreign language magazines including Lotus, Abitare, Domus, Ottagono, Il progetto, Archis, L’architecture d’aujourd’hui and A+U.
Over the last few years he has been responsible for the staging and curatorship of various events linked to the world of architecture and contemporary art, including: Le forme del cibo (curatorship, Opos, Milan, 1996), Stalker (Opos, Milan, 1996) and I sentimenti del 2000. Arte e fotografia dal 1960 ad oggi (staging, Triennial, Milan, 1999), Santiago Calatrava. Work in Progress (staging and organisation, Triennial, Milan, 1998-99), Effetti Collaterali (curatorship, Triennial, Milan, 2002), Medaglia d’oro per l’architettura italiana (curatorship, Triennial, Milan, Naples, Rome, Singapore and Guang-Zhou, 2004-05), Piero Portaluppi (curatorship, Triennial, Milan, 2004), Antinapoli (with Cherubino Gambardella, Vincenzo Trione, Francesco Jodice and Fabrizia Ippolito, 2005), 20.06. Annali dell’architettura (Palazzo Reale, Naples, 2006).
Since 1995 he has been editor-in-charge for the Architecture and Design sector of the publishing house Skira.
Between 2000 and 2003 he was scientific director of “Progetto Portaluppi” for the Portaluppi Foundation, Milan.
Between 2001 and 2004 he was scientific director for architecture and town planning of the Triennial of Milan and member of the scientific committee for which, among other things, he devised and organised the first edition of the Gold Medal for Italian Architecture (2003), the first edition of the Architecture Festival (2004) and the cycle of conferences “Cantieri aperti” (2004-05).
Between 2005/2006 he was director of the Naba School of Design, Milan. He is currently in charge of the Master in Interior Design.
He collaborates as a consultant on architectural quality with numerous public and private agencies.
He has published the following volumes: Barcelona: architetture e spazi urbani 1975-1992 (Milan, 1993), (with Mario Fosso), Il grande libro di Laus (Lodi, 1995); Santiago Calatrava (Milan-Geneva, 1998, Italian, English, Spanish and French editions), Atlante. Tendenze dell’architettura americana contemporanea. 1990-2000 (Milan-Geneva, 2001, Italian, French and English editions), Massimiliano Fuksas. 1970-2005 (Milan-Geneva, 2005, Italian, French and English editions).
He has also edited the reprints of the books by Ernesto Nathan Rogers, Esperienza dell’architettura (Milan-Geneva, 1996) and Lettere di Ernesto ad Ernesto e viceversa (Milan, 2000), the Archis monograph edition (n.7, 1999 - with Mirko Zardini) dedicated to contemporary Italian architecture and Arquitectura Italiana del posguerra/ Post war Italian architecture (with Paolo Scrivano, 2G, n.15, Barcelona 2000), Effetti collaterali (Milan, 2002), La medaglia d’oro per l’architettura italiana (Bologna, 2003), Piero Portaluppi. Linea errante nell’architettura moderna (with the Portaluppi Foundation, Milan-Geneva 2003), A+U n.420 “Italian metamorph” (guest editor, 2005).
He received the Ernesto Nathan Rogers Award for the criticism and communication of architecture at the X Biennial of Architecture in Venice in 2006.
04.10.2007
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