The event will be held in English.
On the occasion of the 20th edition of the Day of Contemporary Art (Giornata del Contemporaneo) with the theme of accessibility, the architects Pier Vittorio Aureli et Martino Tattara will give a lecture exploring the historical and contemporary significance of the Urban Villa.
The lecture highlights research conducted by the Brussels-based architecture firm Dogma on the urban villa, which is featured in an exhibition at the Flanders Architecture Institute from October 4th, 2024, to February 9th, 2025.
Built in many European cities since the 19th century, urban villas are detached, medium-sized residences containing several flats. They were originally a product of speculative development, intended to reconcile the expectations of suburban life with rising land costs in the city and were. Now, Dogma believes that the urban villa’s scale, form, and organization present a potential model for modern affordable housing.
Pier Vittorio Aureli teaches at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), where he directs the laboratory ‘Theory and Project of Domestic Space’. He previously taught at the Architectural Association in London and Yale School of Architecture. Aureli studied at the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia IUAV, at the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam and obtained his PhD from the Technische Universiteit Delft. He is the author of many essays and books, including The Project of Autonomy (2008), The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture (2011), Less is Enough (2013), The City as a Project (2014) and the forthcoming Architecture and Abstraction (2023).
Martino Tattara is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Architecture, KU Leuven. He studied at the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia IUAV and at the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam. His main theoretical interest is the relationship between architecture and large-scale urban design.
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