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Luce e oscurità nell’architettura del XX secolo

Light and Darkness in 20th Century Architecture

24.10.2014 Friday

9.30 Opening

  • Christoph Frank, Vice-Director, Accademia di architettura, Mendrisio
  • Daniela Mondini, Accademia di architettura, Mendrisio

I. Representing Light and its Effects within Architectural Space, 

Chair: Daniela Mondini

  • 10.00 Silvia Berselli, Accademia di architettura, Mendrisio - Le Corbusier l’éblouissant. Tra slogans e ricerca, indagine sul rapporto mutevole dell'architetto con la luce
  • 10.30 Marcel Bächtiger, ETH Zürich - 
  • From the Dark Chamber of the Lumière Brothers. Le Corbusier in the Reflection of Cinematic Light

11.00 Coffee break

  • 11.30 Mary Reid Brunstrom, Washington University in St. Louis  - The Light Fantastic. Luminosity in Joseph D. Murphy’s Architectural Renderings of Midcentury Modernist Catholic Churches in the American Midwest
  • 12.00 Simona Talenti, Università di Salerno - Luce per “mostrare”. I documentari di Pierre Kast e Roberto Rossellini

12.30 Lunch break

II. Exposing and Orientating the Building

Chair: Sergio Bettini, Accademia di architettura, Mendrisio

  • 15.00 Daniel Siret, École nationale supérieure d’architecture de Nantes - William Atkinson, pionnier de la science de l’ensoleillement en architecture en Amérique du Nord
  • 15.30 Marie Theres Stauffer, Université de Genève - Les heures claires. The Play of Light and Shadow in the Villa Savoye
  • 16.00 Valeria Farinati, Venezia-Mendrisio - Un edificio a orientamento “variabile”. Villa Girasole e la questione dell’esposizione solare nei primi decenni del Novecento

16.30 Coffee break

  • 17.00 Annarita Teodosio, Università di Salerno - Sguardi verso l’orizzonte. Le colonie marine italiane tra Tirreno e Adriatico
  • 17.30 Daniel A. Barber, University of Pennsylvania - Living with the Sun. Solar Radiation and the Modern American House, c. 1959 
  • 18.30 Book launch of the two volumes of the project "From Ravenna to Vals. Light and Darkness in Architecture from the Middle Ages to the Present"

25.10.2014 Saturday

III.  Devices for the Manipulation of Natural Light

Chair: Sonja Hildebrand, Accademia di architettura, Mendrisio

  • 9.30 Giuliana Scuderi, Università di Trento - Sistemi metallici, filtro per gli involucri edilizi. Traguardi e sperimentazioni del XX secolo 
  • 10.00 Marco Di Nallo, Antalya International University - «Von zweiseitiger zur zusätzlichen Belichtung». Natural Lighting in Modern School Building in Switzerland

10.30 Coffee break

IV. Architects and Artificial Light

Chair: Marco Della Torre, Accademia di architettura, Mendrisio

  • 11.00 Lutz Robbers, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar - Silhouettes in Space. The Light Wall in the Architecture of Mies van der Rohe 
  • 11.30 Dietrich Neumann, Brown University, Providence - Microcosms of Modernity. Lighting Collaborations in 20th Century Architecture
  • 12.00 Matthias Brunner, Accademia di architettura, Mendrisio - “Carefully Tempered not to Interfere with the Starry Desert Sky.” The Illumination of Richard Neutra’s Kaufmann Desert House

12.30 Lunch break

Chair: Christoph Frank

  • 15.00 Ruth Hommelen, KU Leuven, Brussels Ghent - Mood Shift. The Théâtre Pigalle and the Use of Electric Lighting as a Therapeutic Agent
  • 15.30 Katrin Albrecht, ETH Zürich - Il ruolo dell’illuminazione notturna nel disegno architettonico e nella fotografia degli anni Trenta in Italia

16.00 Coffee break

V. Artificial Lighting from the Perspective of Professional Associations and the Industry

  • 16.30 Nathalie Simonnot, Ecole nationale supérieure d’architecture de Versailles - Perspectives sur la notion de confort dans la revue Lux. L’étude du temps long comme démonstration d’une rupture de discours (1928-1973)
  • 17.00 Éric Monin, École nationale supérieure d’architecture et de paysage de Lille - La lumière savante des verres prismatiques Holophane
  • 17.30 Margaret Maile Petty, Victoria University of Wellington - In Fear of Shadows. Light Conditioning the Postwar American Home and Lifestyle 

Organized by Silvia Berselli, Matthias Brunner, Daniela Mondini within the research project “From Ravenna to Vals. Light and Darkness in Architecture from the Middle Ages to the Present” funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation