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SUMMARY:" Their Place in the Sun. Tacit Agencies in Villa Graziani and Vil
 la Guinness in Sardinia" a Lecture by Michela Bonomo / TPOD
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DESCRIPTION:Michela Bonomo\nAbstract\nThe story of one of the most elitist
  tourist resorts in Europe\, Costa Smeralda in the North of Sardinia\, has
  often been told from the point of view of male protagonists involved in i
 ts conception and construction. From Ismail Prince Karim Aga Kahn\, who sa
 w the real estate potential of purchasing parcels from local shepherds to 
 the selected group of male architects (such as Luigi Vietti\, Michele Busi
 ri Vici\, and Jacques Coüelle) employed to forge a new architectural ide
 ntity.\nWomen have primarily been presented through the seductive performa
 tivity of their bodies\, as in Slim Aarons’ photographs that cemented th
 e ideology of the glamorous ‘Mediterranean holiday’.  The tanned and 
 objectified female body was instrumental not only in reinforcing the myths
  of the ‘Mediterraneanists [who] often fell back upon cliches (sun worsh
 ip\, human centeredness\, the pleasure-loving life\, even backwardness) to
  describe what made it different from other parts of the world\,’– but
  also as a tourist marketing tool for the region and Italy as a whole.\nTh
 is paper focuses on the story of two women: Simone Bodine\, in art\, Betti
 na Graziani (1925–2015)\, and Dolores Guinness (1936-2012)\, analyzing t
 heir tacit agency in the making of Costa Smeralda as well as their pioneer
 ing role in the evolution of the Sardinian coastline. Both women were not 
 only photographed by Slim Aarons\, but they also commissioned their holida
 y villa to the same architect\, Michele Busiri Vici: Villa Bettina was the
  first villa ever built by the architect and Villa Guinness was one of the
  last. The in-depth close reading of these two buildings through typologic
 al analysis of the two villas will be carried out in conjunction with othe
 r alternative primary sources: on-site photographs and written material pr
 oduced by the clients. This methodology is also aimed to put into question
  the hierarchy of the (male) architect archive as the main form of knowled
 ge for these projects.\n\nBio\nMichela is an architect and researcher.She 
 completed her training in Architecture in the UK\, where she then practice
 d at Foster Partners and Herzog & de Meuron\, as well as through freelance
  projects in London\, Mallorca and Milan. She is currently pursuing a PhD 
 in History and Theory of Architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Te
 chnology in Lausanne (EPFL). Her doctoral research critically examines the
  proliferation of seaside holiday villas in Italy from the start of the 'E
 conomic Miracle' to the first Oil Crisis.\nAs part of TPOD Lab (Theory a
 nd Project of Domestic Space)\, Michela supervises Master Thesis Projects 
 and acts as one of the editors of Burning Farm Journal.She acted as PhD r
 epresentative of the Doctoral School of Architecture - within the collecti
 ve Quatre- between 2023 and 2025. In April 2023 she launched Doc. Days ED
 AR\, a doctoral review seminar across different labs of the Doctoral Schoo
 l of Architecture.She has been invited as an external critic at the London
  Metropolitan University\, the Architectural Association\, and the Univers
 ity of Brighton. Her architectural work has been showcased at the Lisbon T
 riennale\, AA Project Reviews\, and Something Curated. Her writing has bee
 n published in Burning Farm\, Dimensions Journal\, and OASE.\n\n\nImage: 
 Villa Guinness\, Sardinia (1973) © Roberto Faraone.
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