Italy Under Construction

Escuela de idiomas Hispano Americano

Toronto Academy of Acting for Film and Television
866 The Queensway

In a globalized yet conflictual world, how can architecture reevaluate its cultural and political role and enable practises of identification and belonging?

Italy Under Construction is a new programme of exhibitions and lectures on contemporary architecture in Italy, presented by the Italian Cultural Institute in Toronto. What role does architecture occupy in shaping the relationship between regional cultures and international forces? Between the global hunger for the architectural icon and claims for the authenticity of regional craftsmanship, what i

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12/05/2020

COMING SOON in January 2021! After a long time in the making, Italy under Construction is coming back with the new exhibit Emerging Ecologies. Italy / Canada B2B, stay tuned!

04/10/2017

Few pics of the current exhibition Palimpsests and Interfaces: Architecture by Renato Rizzi and Cino Zucchi. Up until May 5 Istituto Italiano di Cultura

03/08/2017

SAVE THE DATE!
The Istituto Italiano di Cultura is pleased to present the exhibition Palimpsests and Interfaces: Architecture by Renato Rizzi and Cino Zucchi Architects, the third exhibition in the series Italy Under Construction.

Through original models, drawings and photographs of selected work from the two architects, the exhibition explores the ambition to design buildings as cultural narratives and agents in the interaction of private and collective life.

Palimpsests and Interfaces: Architecture by Renato Rizzi and Cino Zucchi opens on March 29, 2017 at 6.30pm at the Italian Cultural Institute in Toronto. The visiting architects will deliver a lecture on their work on March 30 at 6.00pm at John H. Daniels, Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design, Room 103.

10/30/2016

Italy Under Construction Common Places against Commonplaces: Italian Public Architecture by Giovanni Corbellini The top-down paradigm according to which the idea and role of the modern architect was conceived, has long ago dissolved in a fragmented and contradictory...

09/02/2016

Public Ambitions goes to Ottawa! After a successful launch in Toronto, the architecture exhibition Public Ambitions opens in Ottawa at Galerie SAW Gallery on Thursday October 6th, 2016
at 6.30 pm.