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SUMMARY:ENAC Seminar Series - Fundamental Acts
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. Ambra Fabi\nFundamental Acts\n\nArchitecture can be unde
 rstood through a set of permanent principles that structure the way we des
 ign and think.\nToday we have the possibility to reconsider radically how 
 these fundamental acts can operate in response to contemporary conditions\
 , how they can absorb new questions and adapt to the necessities of our ti
 me.\n\nThese fundamental acts constitute the basic grammar of architecture
 : a set of archetypal elements that transcend scale and context\, time and
  space\, operating from objects to buildings\, from furniture to landscape
 s\, while remaining recognisable as simple spatial gestures.\n\nThe lectur
 e explores the possibility of an architecture reduced to its essential mat
 ters and proposes revisiting\, with fresh eyes\, the elementary components
  through which architecture organises relationships between bodies\, colle
 ctivities\, and climate.\n\nIn a complex world\, fundamental acts frame co
 ntemporary forms of inhabitation. In the midst of ecological crisis\, wher
 e every action leaves a significant footprint\, they allow architecture to
  collect what already exists and rearrange it through the project. In a ho
 stile political climate\, where culture is often treated as a superfluous 
 luxury\, these acts can condense the necessary vitality for architecture t
 o become the vessel of a shared common ground.\n\nThrough projects develop
 ed within the practice Piovenefabi\, together with pedagogical reflections
  emerging from current and past teaching experiences\, the lecture searche
 s for what remains constant in architecture and still necessary today: its
  fundamental acts.\n\nAmbra Fabi Bio\nAmbra Fabi is an Italian architect\,
  educator\, and co-founder of the architecture office Piovenefabi\, establ
 ished with Giovanni Piovene and based in Milan and Brussels. The practice 
 explores architecture as an evocative medium capable of shaping both perso
 nal and collective experiences across multiple scales—from furniture and
  objects to buildings and urban interventions.\nThe work is characterised 
 by a series of experimental pavilions conceived as minimal architectural a
 cts that activate public space and collective engagement. Piovenefabi is c
 urrently building a hotel in Brussels and has recently completed a residen
 tial tower with cultural facilities in Paris. The studio’s work has been
  exhibited internationally\, including at the Lisbon Architecture Triennal
 e\, the Chicago Architecture Biennial\, the Rotterdam Biennale\, the Venic
 e Biennale\, the Horst Festival\, and the Concéntrico Festival\, Maniera 
 Gallery\, Campo\, and has been widely published in architectural magazines
  such as Casabella\, Abitare\, Domus\, A+\, Accattone\, San Rocco\, and Ab
 out. The project 5 Pavilions for 5 Parks has won the Visit Brussels Awards
  2018\, and has been shortlisted for the T-Young\, Medaglia d’oro dell
 ’Architettura 2018 and the Brussels Architecture Prize 2021.\nFabi has b
 een teaching in a wide European context\, from Academia di Architettura Me
 ndrisio\, to ULB Brussels\, UCLouvain Brussels\, KU Leuven\, and IED Cagli
 ari. She has been invited as a guest professor at EPFL Lausanne in the fal
 l semester of 2023 and 2024 and she is currently a permanent professor at 
 the École d’Architecture de la Ville et des Territoires de Paris-Est\, 
 where she has been leading architecture studios at both bachelor’s and m
 aster’s levels and where she is currently coordinating the full introduc
 tory year.\n 
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