Lectures on Memory and the city, by Filippo De Pieri and Zhang Li

© Teamminus 2015

© Teamminus 2015

Two lectures on the study of urban memory in the framework of the IAGS and EDAR course


On Wednesday May 31, 2017 at 10h30 two public lectures will take place in BM 5202.

Urbanism as heritage, urbanism as public memory: an ongoing research on La Chaux-de-Fonds and Le Locle
by Filippo De Pieri, Associate Professor of Architectural History, Politecnico di Torino, Italy. Visiting Professor, Collège des Humanités, EPFL

Alternative modernity: silent departures that contemporary Chinese architecture takes
by Zhang Li, Professor of Architecture and Associate Dean, School of Architecture, Tsinghua University, China. Visiting Professor, Department of Architecture and Design, Politecnico di Torino. Founding Partner and Director of Design at Team Minus, Beijing. Editor-in-chief, “World Architecture”

Discussion with Michele Bonino, Associate Professor, Politecnico di Torino, Italy.

The lectures will be followed by an aperitif.