Guided Tour Series of the Ornament

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Guided tour of the exhibition What is Ornament?, pointing out the ambivalent character of ornament and its omnipresence in the history of architecture. Between repulsion and excess, the ornamentality of constructive elements reflects the cycle of ascetic modernism, postmodernist rhetoric and ambivalent mannerist movements. And what is the contemporaneity of ornament? Is there a risk of trivialization by technological musing?

Agenda
Curators
Giovanni Piovene (IT)
Giovanni Piovene Curator of the exhibition What is Ornament?
Giovanni Piovene graduated in Architecture in Venice and founded, with Ambra Fabi, the studio Piovenefabi. In 2007, he co-founded the Salottobuono office and in 2010 co-founded San Rocco magazine and commissioned the book and the exhibition “Book of Copies” (2014). He has been teaching assistant at the Accademia di Architettura de Mendrisio and a member of the FORM unit at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). He currently teaches at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture in Marne-la-Vallée in Paris.
Ambra Fabi (IT)
Ambra Fabi curator of the exhibition What is Ornament?
Ambra Fabi is an architect and co-founder of Piovenafabi studio, with Giovanni Piovene. Graduated from the University of Mendrisio, she worked at Peter Zumthor’s atelier and freelancer in Milan. She’ has been assistant professor at the Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio and has been teaching at KU leuven and IED Cagliari. She currently teaches at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture at Marne-la-Vallée in Paris.
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