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SUMMARY:Living in the City\, Ugo La Pietra / Sophie Delhay
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DESCRIPTION:Ugo La Pietra\nThe Sophie Delhay Studio is pleased to welcome 
 Ugo La Pietra\, live on zoom\, for a discussion as part of the spring seme
 ster 2023 - La ville comme une maison. \n\nUgo La Pietra\, an artiste\, a
 rchitect and designer\, was a major figure on the radical scene of the 196
 0s and 1970s. From the early 1960s he was interested in the experiments of
  the Viennese architects (Hollein\, Pichler…) and worked to break down t
 he separations between forms and disciplines through drawing\, painting an
 d architecture by exploring the theme of the “synesthesia of the arts.
 ” In 1967\, Ugo La Pietra became more radical in his critic of function
 alism\, which\, according to him\, asphyxiated the individual. He develope
 d an “unbalancing system\,” which\, through the use of objects\, audio
 visual environments and immersions\, aimed to broaden the field of human p
 erception and to make the viewer an active participant. In the 1970s\, urb
 an zones became the focus of his attention. Equipped with “deciphering t
 ools\,” he surveyed the city down to its tiniest interstices in a quest 
 for “degrees of liberty.” The artist methodically reappropriates and r
 einterprets urban space utilizing photography\, film\, drawing and photomo
 ntage. For him\, we weave the city through our behaviors and our choices: 
 “Inhabiting the city means being at home everywhere.”\n\nThe architect
 ural fragment designed for Milan Triennale in 1996\, symbolically and allu
 sively represented various things from the slogan Living in the city th
 at is the theoretical and project foundation of La Pietra’s work in the
  urban space: breaking the barrier between public and private space (insid
 e/outside)\, reinventing decoration to endow architecture with meaning (th
 e culture of making / craft culture)\, and the impossibility of impacting 
 on reality with created works (the ephemeral design / the interrupted desi
 gn). 
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