Rome forms the foundation of a basic understanding of the identity and heritage of European architecture. Its ruinous monumentality is still more visibly present today for the city, for architecture and art than perhaps in no other metropolis in Europe. As a thematic follow-up to the symposium „monumental_public buildings at the beginning of the 21st century“ 2019 at the Baukunstarchiv NRW, the theme of „fragmental_dissolution of public space“ at the 2022 symposium at the Villa Massimo in Rome examines the ambivalent identity of a monumental and simultaneously romantic understanding of space between the built environment and its dissolution, between architecture and the reconquest of space by nature. At a time when our relationship to the unbuilt, to the „natural“ is being radically questioned and the static role of architecture is beginning to falter, concepts such as dissolution and fragmentation seem to be taking on a new identity-forming role in recent architectural development. But how does the relationship between architecture and the city develop?
The symposium seeks to take up the concept of the „public“ within recent positions and to critically reaect on its relation to a classical-romantic understanding of architecture.
Guests:
Verena von Beckerath
Adria Daraban
Filip Dujardin
Job Floris
Christoph Gantenbein
Heike Hanada
Simona Malvezzi
Oda Pälmke
Marco Provinciali
Uwe Schröder
Giuseppe Strappa
Val Warke
Peter L.Wilson
Imke Woelk
guest of honor RACHEL WHITEREAD
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Dates:
24th of february 2pm-7pm
25th of february 10am-7.30pm
live stream on youtube channel villa massimo
download full programm at the side
fragmental_ on the dissolution of public space_tickets_eventbrite: presence participation in Rome only with registration on eventbrite from 17 th of february