Museum as a space for theory, agency and communication
Pippo Ciorra, MAXXI, Rome
12:15p.m. ET | Thursday, November 21, 2024
807 Schermerhorn Hall | Refreshments Provided
Pippo Ciorra’s discussion will center around his ongoing “curatorial project” at the MAXXI and will also highlight some of his present and future projects, mainly Stop Drawing, an investigation on the changing role of design and communication tools in architecture. The backdrop of the conversation is the present role of architecture museums, suspended between social and disciplinary stances.
Pippo Ciorra is an architect, critic and professor at SAAD (University of Camerino) and director of the PhD program “Villard d’Honnecourt” at IUAV. Author of books and essays, he was part of the curatorial team for the 1991 Architecture Venice Biennale and juror for the 2016 edition. He has curated exhibitions in Italy and abroad. Since 2009, he is Senior Curator of MAXXI Architettura in Rome and co-director of “Premio Italiano d’Architettura”. His main research fields are late 20th-century Italian architecture, museums and exhibitions, urban and architectural theory and its social and political implications. He’s currently a fellow at the Italian Academy, Columbia University.
