Data
21 October2021h. 9.30 - 19.00
Luogo
Politecnico di Milano - Aula Magna
Piazza Leonardo da Vinci, 32
Responsabili:
Gaia Caramellino, Nicole De Togni,
Federico Zanfi
contatti
nicole.detogni@polimi.itSEMINARIO
Comparative and Multi-Situated Perspectives on Middle-class Housing
COST Action CA 18137 Meeting 2021, Milan , 20-23/10
The annual meeting of the COST Action “European Middle Class Mass Housing” is held in Milan from October 20 to 23 and is co-organized by the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies.
The meeting is opening at Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli on October 20, h.17.45, with the keynote lecture by Konstantina Kalfa (NTUA Athens) titled “Unsettling Settling”.
The meeting includes the symposium “Southern Europe and Beyond. Comparative and Multi-Situated Perspectives on Middle class Housing” held on October 21 at the Politecnico di Milano.
It aims at promoting an in-depth reflection about common features and specificities in the history of European middle-class mass housing. Italy and Southern Europe are taken as starting points to carry out a broader discussion encompassing all the geographical areas covered by the project, re-articulating intra-European comparisons for a better understanding of the multi-faceted factors that have contributed to shaping the built heritage of middle-class mass housing.
The symposium will conclude with the keynote lecture by Hartmut Frank (HCU Hamburg) titled “Peter Behrens’ Terrace Houses for the new Metropolitan Middle Class”.
The symposium is organized by Gaia Caramellino, Nicole De Togni, Federico Zanfi (DAStU), Laura Daglio (DABC) and Filippo De Pieri (Politecnico di Torino).
Hartmut Frank studied architecture and urbanism at TU Berlin.
He lives and works in Hamburg, where he has been professor of architectural theory at the Hochschule für bildende Künste since 1975 and at the HafenCity University since 2006.
There, he was appointed Emeritus Professor in 2011. He has taught at various European and non-European universities (including Politecnico di Milano). He organized research projects, published articles and books, and curated exhibitions on European architecture and urbanism.
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