Architecture is Memory : Mario Cucinella
Mario Cucinella : Technology & Craft
Born in Palermo, Mario Cucinella (1960) is an Italian architect, designer and academic, particularly renowned for his environmentally sustainable buildings.
Graduating from Genoa with Giancarlo De Carlo in 1986, in subsequent years he worked with Renzo Piano in his Building Workshop in Genoa and Paris. He founded his own practice, Mario Cucinella Architects (MCA), in Paris in 1992 followed by Bologna in 1999.
MCA now has a team of 90 professionals with a variety of expertise, including architectural, engineering, urban and regional planning, and industrial design. The practice’s mission is to create projects with a reduced environmental impact in an ongoing attempt to conserve energy.
Using the most innovative technology, combined with environmental sustainability, ethical behavior and positive social impact, buildings such as the Sino Italian Ecological Building (SIEEB), Beijing, Center for Sustainable Energy Technologies in Ningbo (China), new Town Hall, Bologna, 3M headquarters in Milan, project for ARPA (regional environmental agency) in Ferrara, “La Balena” nursery school, Guastalla which replaced the public nursery school damaged in the 2012 earthquake, and One Airport Square in Accra, a mixed-use building located in a commercial area under development.
"Holistic design, sustainability applied to the building and rational use of resources is at the heart of Cucinella’s work and research. All his projects point to the long-term positive impact each building should have on its surroundings and natural, social, economic and urban regeneration. Working side by side with clients and communities, Cucinella has always adopted architectural concepts which convey the beauty, richness and resources of local cultures.”
Projects under construction include the University Center in Aosta, with the renovation and transformation of a former barracks totaling over 56,000 sq.m., new “Sud Salento” hospital in Maglie, City of Health and Research, Sesto San Giovann
Design Disruption: Dr. Balkrishna V Doshi
This Episode will focus on Architecture for the People featuring 2018 Pritzker Prize laureate Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi. In a practice covering about 70 years, Doshi completed more than 100 projects that range from entire cities with town planning programs, educational spaces, cultural hubs , libraries, art centres to low-cost housing. His architecture embraces ideas of sustainability rooted in local principles, vernacular traditions, nature and social context. His notable works include the Ahmedabad School of Architecture which he also founded; the barrel-vaulted architecture studio Vastu-Shilpa; Aranya Low Cost Housing and his experimental, cave-like Amdavad ni Gufa art gallery.
The series is co-hosted by New York-based architectural writer Sam Lubell, who has written ten books about architecture, and contributes regularly to the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Wallpaper, Dwell, and Architectural Digest; and Bangalore-based Social Entrepreneur Prathima Manohar, founder of think do tank The Urban Vision. Our goal is to provide an international perspective, mixing guests from different continents. ArchDaily is the main media partner for this series.
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Urban Manifesto : ‘Changemakers for a collective inclusive society’
More Urban Manifestos are on the way! Join us on 30 June from 3-4:00pm BST for ‘Changemakers for a collective inclusive society’, our latest Urban Manifesto webinar advancing liveable urbanism with guest Bien King, founder and CEO of Let’s Reinvent. We’ll be talking about youth participation, impact, D&I, cross-cultural collaboration and community development, exploring Let’s Reinvent’s mission to raise awareness and opportunities globally for women, youth and people of underrepresented backgrounds to thrive in the tech-driven future. Let’s Reinvent tackles the challenge by offering free and low-cost mentorships, digital skills training workshops, global youth forums and many other initiatives in collaboration with like-minded individuals and organisations in the UK and across the globe.
‘We are entering a new era where technology disrupts the way we think, live, and work. However, not even half of the global tech workforce is represented by women and people of colour in today’s world. It is therefore of significant importance to take robust collective action to generate awareness and opportunities to successfully onboard a full representation of the different segments of our society into the future of technology’, says King.
Urban Manifesto is co-curated and co-hosted by Lucy Bullivant PhD Hon FRIBA, place strategist and Prathima Manohar, founder of The Urban Vision.
Design Disruption: Designing The Hospitals Of The Future
This Episode will focus on Designing the Hospitals of the Future. Our guests will be Allison Mendez and Michael Pukszta, architects at CannonDesign, a firm that is rethinking medical spaces worldwide. Both specialize in working with top healthcare institutions—from small clinics to cancer care centers to major academic hospitals— to flexibly plan and adapt for the future. We will discuss a broad range of disruptions, including rethinking wellness and mental health, incorporating biophilic design, creating pop-up facilities and health care startup spaces, and adapting hospitals to new threats like COVID-19. Images of the architects and their work can be found here.
The series is co-hosted by New York-based architectural writer Sam Lubell, who has written ten books about architecture, and contributes regularly to the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Wallpaper, Dwell, and Architectural Digest; and Bangalore-based Social Entrepreneur Prathima Manohar, a contributor to The Times of India and founder of think do tank The Urban Vision. Our goal is to provide an international perspective, mixing guests from different continents. ArchDaily is the main media partner for this series.
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Urban Manifesto- New infrastructures & systemic design with Indy Johar.
Urban Manifesto, our livestreamed webinar series dedicated to advancing liveable urbanism, is back! After a winter break, we're turning towards the light with a new series of monthly episodes with more excellent guest experts presenting manifestos for positive change and engaging in stimulating debate.
Join us on Wed 7 April 15:00 GMT for a discussion grappling with the vital task of remaking the civic city's dark matter and building new infrastructures through systemic design with Indy Johar, architect, cofounder, ARCHITECTURE 00 LIMITED and Dark Matter Labs, and a Mayor of London Good Growth by Design Advocate.
At DML they discover, design and develop institutional dark matter: 'the invisible structures - policy, regulation, finance, data, governance & organisational culture, identity and democratic participation'.
Intrigued? Here's a taster of Johar's incisive approach (Emerge journal): https://lnkd.in/dUHVCmm
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Design Disruption : Future Cities with NBBJ
The webcast series Design Disruption explores these shifts—and address issues like climate change, inequality, and the housing crisis— through chats with visionaries like architects, designers, planners and thinkers; putting forward creative solutions and reimagining the future of the built environment.
EPISODE 9 will focus on Future Cities. Our guest will be Jonathan Ward, a Design Partner at NBBJ, which is developing Chinese technology company TenCent’s Net City, in Shenzen China. At roughly the size and shape of Midtown Manhattan, Net City features a new Tencent office, a residential neighborhood, schools, retail and other amenities. The project focuses on sustainability, including photovoltaic panels on rooftops, sensors that track environmental performance and flooding, and a comprehensive transportation network that prioritizes public transit, bicycles and pedestrian access. Ward’s other notable projects for NBBJ include headquarters for Samsung in San Jose and South Korea, Ant Financial in Hangzhou, the Wellcome Trust in Cambridge, Telenor in Oslo and Reebok in Massachusetts.
The series is co-hosted by New York-based architectural writer Sam Lubell, who has written ten books about architecture, and contributes regularly to the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Wallpaper, Dwell, and Architectural Digest; and Bangalore-based Social Entrepreneur Prathima Manohar, a contributor to The Times of India and founder of think do tank The Urban Vision. Our goal is to provide an international perspective, mixing guests from different continents.
ArchDaily is the main media partner for this series.
Design Disruption : Resilience and Community with BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group
In this session we speak to Kai-Uwe Bergmann , Partner at Danish architecture firm BIG.
EPISODE 8 will focus on Resilience and Community. Our guest will be Kai-Uwe Bergmann, a Partner at BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group). Kai-Uwe most recently contributed to the resiliency plan BIG U, designed to protect 10 miles of Manhattan's coastline. Further projects include Brooklyn Queens Park, Brooklyn Bridge Back to the Future, the Smithsonian Master Plan, Pittsburgh
Master Plan, Miami Beach Square and Zira Island Master Plan. Kai-Uwe has taught at the University of Pennsylvania, IE University in Madrid, and the University of Virginia.
The series is co-hosted by New York-based architectural writer Sam Lubell, who has written ten books about architecture, and contributes regularly to the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Wallpaper, Dwell, and Architectural Digest; and Bangalore-based Social Entrepreneur Prathima Manohar, founder of think do tank The Urban Vision. Our goal is to provide an international perspective, mixing guests from different continents.
ArchDaily is the main media partner for this series.
Urban Manifesto : Enabling Civic Innovation
In this session of Urban Manifetso , we speak to Nigel Jacob.
Nigel Jacob is the Co-founder of the Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics, a civic innovation incubator and R&D Lab within Boston's City Hall. Nigel's work is about making urban life better via innovative, people-oriented applications of technology and design.
Urban Manifesto- The Good Life: new models of architecture and urbanism
We speak to Alessandra Cianchetta, Founder, AWP/AWILDC, London & New York on The Good Life: new models of architecture and urbanism
Design Disruption : Winy Maas, Co-founder , MVRDV
This Episode will focus on disrupting transit, culture, and more. Our guest will be Winy Maas, co-founder of Rotterdam-based MVRDV, a firm that specializes in disrupting established norms in architecture, urban design, and beyond. The firm’s recent projects include the Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen, the world’s first fully accessible art depot; the Tianjin Binhai Library,
a one-of-a kind structure featuring cascading bookshelves and a luminous spherical auditorium;and a collaboration with Airbus to plan for Urban Air Mobility in our cities. Maas, who is an architect, landscape architect, and urban designer, is a Professor of Urbanism and Architecture at the Delft University of Technology.
The series is co-hosted by New York-based architectural writer Sam Lubell, who has written ten books about architecture, and contributes regularly to the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Wallpaper, Dwell, and Architectural Digest; and Bangalore-based Social Entrepreneur Prathima Manohar, a contributor to The Times of India and founder of think do tank The Urban
Vision. Our goal is to provide an international perspective, mixing guests from different continents. ArchDaily is the main media partner for this series.
