La Gae. Gae Aulenti (1927-2012) / ARCHIZOOM
Event details
| Date | 11.11.2025 |
| Hour | 18:00 |
| Speaker | Nina Artioli, Nina Bassoli, Paola Viganò, Léa-Catherine Szacka |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
| Event Language | French, English |
5pm — Guided tour by Léa-Catherine Szacka, in French
6pm — Book Launch La Gae. Gae Aulenti (1927-2012), curated by Giovanni Agosti, Triennale Milano, 2025. Round Table with Nina Artioli, Nina Bassoli, Paola Viganò, moderated by Léa-Catherine Szacka
The volume, which has origin from the experience of the exhibition held between 2024 and 2025 at Triennale Milano, is an unpublished and surprising portrait of Gae Aulenti (1927-2012).
The exhibition and the book were created in collaboration with Archivio Gae Aulenti. The backbone consists of a chronology, which from 1927 to 2012 follows the architect in an uninterrupted interweaving of testimonies where personal and professional life are inextricably connected. The text is flanked, page after page, by a totally renewed iconography, the sequence of which follows step by step the thread of words, the coming on stage of projects, the making and unraveling of theatre plays, the opening and closing of construction sites. The juxtapositions with the protagonist change over the course of the pages: close-ups alternate with mass scenes, where she is only one element; zooming in is followed by bird flights, so that the chronological mesh loses its rigidity and gives way to insights. There are a chronology of the architect’s writings and a summary of the over eight hundred projects. Finally, the index of names transforms the book into a pilot book of culture, not just architecture, at the end of the twentieth century. In this cavalcade the genres, historiographical and literary, mix: and the figure of Gae Aulenti that emerges is very different from the one we think we know, through hearsay or clichés.
This event take place on the occasion of the exhibition Crossed Histories, Gae Aulenti, Ada Louise Huxtable, Phyllis Lambert, on Architecture and the City at Archizoom, curated by Léa-Catherine Szacka.
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Practical information
- General public
- Free
Organizer
- Archizoom
Contact
- Cyril Veillon