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In the conference report “‘Carlo Roma 2020’: Architecture, City and Politics in Carlo Aymonino’s Legacy,” the author Diana Carta describes the June 2021 symposium “Carlo Aymonino. Progetto, città e politica” held at the School of Architecture, Valle Giulia at the Sapienza University of Rome. Carta explains that the symposium was part of several events that “had the objective to start a critical conversation on Carlo Aymonino’s legacy for the contemporary architectural scene.”

Finally, to learn more about Carlo Aymonino’s time and place in architectural history, we suggest you read the text, Ernesto Nathan Rogers (2021) by our Editor-in-Chief, Maurizio Sabini.

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Theory

In, “‘Carlo Roma 2020’: Architecture, City and Politics in Carlo Aymonino’s Legacy,” the author Diana Carta wrote:

“The city, according to Carlo Aymonino, is certainly a complex phenomenon and it is inseparable from politics: polis as policy. It was a palimpsest which, throughout history, declared the inseparability between the architectural project and the city.”

Symposium exhibition Disegni per Carlo [Drawings for Carlo], curated by Orazio Carpenzano, Federica Morgia, Manuela Raitano, Alessandro Lanzetta and Giovanni Rocco Cellini. Drawings expressly done for the exhibition by invited architects: Carmen Andriani, Carmelo Baglivo, Michele Beccu, Gianfranco Bombaci e Matteo Costanzo, Renato Capozzi, Giuseppe Ansovino Cappelli, Maria Grazia Cianci, Silvia Codignola, Laura Federici, Luigi Franciosini, Mauro Galantino, Cherubino Gambardella, Alfonso Giancotti, Alberto Iacovoni, Filippo Lambertucci, Vincenzo Latina, Lina Malfona, Bruno Messina, Valerio Palmieri, Gabriele Pierluisi, Vittorio Pizzigoni, Carlo Prati, Carlo Quintelli, Beniamino Servino, Giovanni Vaccarini and Davide Vargas. 10 Immagini per Venezia. Progetti per Cannaregio Ovest, Venezia, exhibition curated by Francesco Dal Co (Museo Correr, Venice, April 1–30, 1980), with a catalog ed. by Francesco Dal Co (Roma: Officina Edizioni, 1980). Courtesy of © the author.

 

Carta concludes:

“The complex figure of Carlo Aymonino opened toward numerous considerations and the final section of the symposium regarded a further series of analyses and reflections, which served as the conclusion of the conference and started to outline further research material around the Italian master.”

>> The conference report is available in THE PLAN Journal vol. 7/2022, no. 1 (in English)

 

Ernesto Nathan Rogers

You can find additional information about Carlo Aymonino and Aymonino’s contemporaries in the book Ernesto Nathan Rogers (2021) written by Maurizio Sabini.

Published February 25, 2021
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 248
ISBN 9781350117419
Imprint Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Illustrations 87 black + white 
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

To learn more, check out: Ernesto Nathan Rogers

 

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