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SUMMARY:Perfect Acts of Architecture: Five Lectures on the Villa / TPOD
DTSTART:20250908T180000
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Davide Sacconi\, Carla Juaçaba\, François Charbonnet (Made
  In)\,Filippo Falciotti\, Michela Bonomo\, Nemanja Zimonjic (TEN Architec
 ts)\nThis lecture series aim to present contemporary and historical case s
 tudy of Villas as site of architectural experimentation. The villa is perh
 aps the most enduring type in the history of architecture. Its rise was li
 nk with the gentrification of rural land by the Roman elite who appropriat
 ed the farm and transformed it into a luxury residence. Rediscovered in th
 e Renaissance the villa served as an apparatus to domesticate and appropri
 ate the unruly countryside. Until today the villa remains the most outstan
 ding symbol of status and privilege. And yet the villa is also an exceptio
 nal – in the literal sense of the word - place of architectural experime
 ntation. By virtue of the close dialogue between client and architect\, or
  architect and builders the villa becomes an intense laboratory in which q
 uintessential aspects of architecture – type\, form\, space\, structure 
 and material – are radically challenged and perhaps reinvented.\nThis le
 cture series is part of the Superstudio ‘Negative Utopia: An Illustrated
  History of the Villa’ taught by TPOD at EPFL.Upcoming lectures:\n\n7th 
 of October\, François Charbonnet (Made In)\; " Villa Chardonne" (18:00-2
 0:00) - FOYER SG\n13th of October\, Filippo Fanciotti: " The Last Supper o
 f the Midwest: Staging Rituals and Reolt in a Carpenter-Gothic Farmhouse"
  (18:00-20:00) - FOYER SG\n27th of October\, Michela Bonomo: " Their Plac
 e in the Sun. Tacit Agencies in Villa Graziani and Villa Guinness in Sardi
 nina" (18:00-20:00) - FOYER SG\n28th of October\, Nemaja Zimonjic ( TEN A
 rchitect): " Villa Avala" (18:00-20:00) - FOYER SG\n\n\n\nImage: Giusto U
 tens\, Villa di Poggio a Caiano\, 1599–1602. Tempera on panel\, ca. 141 
 × 237 cm.\n 
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