Architecture Here and There – Talk with Prof. Alberto Alessi, May 24, 2025

14 May 2025

Architecture Here and There – Talk with Prof. Alberto Alessi, May 24, 2025

You are cordially invited to a conversation with Prof. Alberto Alessi (IT/CH)
Architecture, Between Here and There
An accompanying event to the exhibition “Spuren / Ślady”

May 24, 2025, at 2:00 PM
Moderator: Szamil Marcin Jachimczyk
Polish Museum in Rapperswil, “Burghof” townhouse, Hauptplatz 8

 

Prof. Alberto Alessi (IT/CH) studied architecture at the Polytechnic University of Milan, ETH Zurich, and the École d’architecture Paris-Villemin. As a curator and critic, he initiated the international architectural dialogue Transalpinarchitettura between Switzerland and Italy, as well as the event MittelArchitetture between Austria and Italy. He is the creator and organizer of the international initiative Costruire Identità and the exhibition Italy now?

He curated the international colloquium Spaziarte, dedicated to contemporary art and architecture, and the exhibition Architetture di Passaggio. Sguardi sull’architettura dal Ticino as part of the 10th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale.

He is the author of numerous publications, including Italy now? Country. Positions in Architecture, the dialogical book Singular Plural | Shared Architecture, and monographs on Heinz Tesar and Jo Coenen.

He has lectured as an assistant at ETH Zurich and at the Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio, and as a visiting professor at the University of Ferrara and Cornell University in Ithaca. He has also served as a visiting critic at Syracuse University, NJIT New York, TU Delft, TU Berlin, and Tsinghua University in Beijing.


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