Publishing and photography for the study of contemporary architecture.
1964: detail of the editorial by Ernesto Nathan Rogers for Casabella, no. 294-295 (photograph by Agnese Divo).
Visual Hub highlights an event organized by Trieste Contemporanea (via del Monte 2/1) for those interested in architecture, photography, and publishing: on Friday, February 21, starting at 5 PM, a study seminar will be held focused on the intersection between the editorial dissemination of architecture, architectural photography, and the cataloging of post-war works, with particular attention to Friuli Venezia Giulia.
The meeting will take place inside the exhibition libraryline Spazi di carta. Indagine sentimentale sull’editoria di architettura nel lungo secondo dopoguerra italiano (Paper Spaces. A sentimental investigation of architecture publishing in the long Italian post-war period) curated by Giulio Polita, it will offer a series of updates and discussions with prominent Italian scholars and local photographers.
THE SEMINAR PROGRAM
5. | introduction ( Giuliana Carbi Jesurun and Giulio Polita)
5:10 |Orietta Lanzarini(architectural historian), Marco Stefani (architect), Davide Sartori (art historian): l ruolo della fotografia nell’aggiornamento del Censimento delle architetture del Friuli Venezia Giulia dal 1945 a oggi (The role of photography in the update of the Census of Architecture in Friuli Venezia Giulia from 1945 to the present) .
5.40 | Manuel Orazi (Edizioni Quodlibet, Macerata): Breve ma veridica storia dell’editoria di architettura italiana 1992-2024. (A brief but truthful history of Italin architecture publishing 1992-2024)
6. | Luca Pitoni (Tomo Tomo, Milano): Anita Klinz, la prima art director italiana (Anita Klinz, the first Italian art director)
6.20 pm | Paolo Tassinari (Tassinari e Vetta, Trieste): Architettura tipografica (Typographic Architecture)
6:30 | Luka Skansi (storico dell’architettura/architectural historian): Italy, Yugoslavia, and the heroic architecture publishing
6:50 | Claudia Biamonti (storica dell’arte/art historian) and Agnese Divo (fotografa/photographer): Trieste. Appunti per un atlante del contemporaneo. Spazi e architettura dal dopoguerra al Duemila (Trieste. Notes for a contemporary atlas. Spaces and architecture from the post-war period to the 2000)
7:00 | Specificità della fotografia di architettura. Esempi in Friuli Venezia Giulia: conversazione con i fotografi (Specificities of architectural photography. Examples from Friuli Venezia Giulia: a conversation with photographers) Marco Covi, Stefano Graziani, Schirra/Giraldi, led by Annalisa Polli (Visual Hub, Trieste)
7:40 | Discussion and insights in English
Spazi di carta. Indagine sentimentale sull’editoria di architettura nel lungo secondo dopoguerra italiano
curated by Giulio Polita
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Trieste Contemporanea
via del Monte 2/1 – Trieste
Hours: Tuesday – Friday from 5 PM to 8 PM
Free entry
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