Category: CITIES CONNECTION

For the closing of the exhibition dedicated to the first Yearbook of Swiss Architecture SAY, on Saturday, Jan. 20, at 5 p.m. in Villa Saroli, architects and women architects from Ticino featured in the exhibition will chat openly with the audience about their projects, scattered throughout Ticino and Graubünden, that seek to provide answers to these issues.

Speakers will include Lukas Bartke and Marina Pedrazzini (Bartke Pedrazzini Architetti), Paolo Canevascini and Stefano Corecco (canevascini&corecco), Jachen Könz, Sandra Giraudi and Thomas Radczuweit (Giraudi Radczuweit studio), Enrico Sassi, Lian Liana Stählin (Squadra.works) along with jury member Martino Pedrozzi and nominators Nicola Navone and Nicola Regusci.

The program

5:00 p.m. Introduction by Ludovica Molo, International Institute of Architecture

5:10 p.m. Presentations and discussion

6:15 p.m. Greeting by Hon. Karin Valenzano Rossi, City of Lugano municipality, and announcement of the project that won the public’s prize

6:30 p.m. Aperitif

Hier soir, nous avons accueilli David Crambert, Friederike Kluge et Jokin Santiago pour une conférence en lien avec l’exposition Cities connection project #6 – espaces de vie partagés.

Cities connection project, dont le commissariat est assuré par Nicola Regusci et Xavier Bustos, est une ode à l’architecture contemporaine, composé dans le cas présent à partir du rapprochement entre trois villes/régions européennes – Wallonie-Bruxelles, Bâle et Barcelone.

À découvrir dans le hall de l’ENSAS jusqu’au 23 novembre.

Dans le cadre de la 19ème itinérance de l’exposition Cities Connection Project #6 (Wallonie-Bruxelles – Bâle – Barcelone / Espaces de vie partagés) accueillie par l’ENSAS du 9 au 23 novembre, nous avons reçu 3 architectes étrangers ayant participé au projet pour une conférence-débat le 9 novembre :

David Crambert, La Générale, Bruxelles-Wallonie
Présentation du projet CCP06-WBA N°15 Brasserie de la Senne 
Refurbishment of the central bulding of the former Manufacture des Tabacs in Strasbourg, France.

Friederike Kluge, Alma Maki Architektur, Bâle
Présentation projet CCP06-BSL N°17 Backyard Studio Conversion

Jokin Santiago, Leku studio, Barcelone
Présentation projet CCP06-BCN N°14 Superblock Sant Antonio

Opening hours: Oct. 14 to Nov. 18, 2023

Tue – Fri, 1:30 p.m. – 6 p.m., closing day: Monday

Xavier Bustos and Nicola Regusci’s (City Connection Project) new exhibition invites us to discover Barcelona’s shared living spaces through a selection of twenty works of public architecture built in recent years in the area of the Catalan city. The exhibition will be on view from Saturday, October 14 to Saturday, November 18 in the Limonaia of Villa Saroli, Lugano: the program for the opening on the 14th includes a workshop for children, a panel discussion, an aperitif at the exhibition and a concluding convivial moment. The new Call for Action and Call for Pecha Kucha of the Swiss Biennial of Territory 2024 will also be launched on this occasion.

5:30 p.m. “Shared Living Spaces, Cities Connection Project 6 Barcelona” Panel discussion with Inaraja Merixtell, , architect, since 1995 she has run her own firm with which she has carried out restoration work on public and private buildings; she is an associate professor at the University of Girona in the department of architecture; Ira Piattini, architect, co-founder of meyer piattini studio, since 2015 member of the FAS ticino group committee; Marina Pedrazzini, architect, co-founder of Bartke Pedrazzini Architetti studio. Moderator Tiziano Schürch, architect, co-founder studioser architecture

The Kosovo Architecture Foundation is an award winning & the biggest organization of its kind in the SEE region with an objective to present to the local architecture community and the general public the contemporary global theories and methodologies in the field of architecture and urban planning. Since 2013 KAF organizes the Architecture Festival with more than 40 annual events. In 2016 KAF was the recipient of the prestigious Getty Foundation “Keeping it Modern” grant for the Conservation and Management Plan of the Kosovo National Library and is the founding member of the Future Architecture Platform, the biggest pan-European architecture & design platform.

KAF TeamDirector & Curator: Bekim Ramku
Deputy Director: Nol Binakaj & Rudina Voca
Coordinators: Zana Bokshi, Marigona Derguti,Rina Kasabaqi, Butrint Gercari.