Florentine Planes Landscape Design, ARTLANDS Tour #2, Tuscany Nature
Florentine Planes Landscape Architecture: ARTLANDS
Architecural Intervention in Northern Italy
14 Jan 2012
ARTLANDS
Location: Florence, Italy
Aaron Betsky, director at the Cincinnati Art Museum, will lecture this Friday May 31 at 9:15 pm at the Centro Pecci in Prato, Italy.
Florentine Planes Landscape Design – ARTLANDS
Mr. Betsky’s presentation marks the conclusion of ARTLANDS Tour #2, the program of conferences and walks in the Florentine Plane which Image (www.image-web.org) started last year to provide knowledge and insights into the new landscape proposals suggested by the works carried out by biologist Carlo Scoccianti and aimed at defining new natural environments through the reclamation and alteration of the territory.
photograph : Peppe Maisto
Some of the most valid observers of the international design culture observed the new landscape possibilities put in place in the Florentine planes which are compatible with the sensibilities and realities of our time. A quite unusual condition for the city of Florence.
Pedro Gadanho, architecture curator at MoMA, New York; Beatrice Galilee, London-based journalist, curator for the Lisbon Triennale 2013; Richard Ingersoll, architecture historian who is sensitive to environmental topics; Sébastien Marot, French scholar of landscapes, among the founders of the École d’architecture de la ville & des territoires at Marne-la-Vallée; they all came to Florence to comment on Carlo Scoccianti’s work.
photograph : Peppe Maisto
The last guest in the series, Aaron Betsky, director at the Cincinnati Art Museum, concludes the program. The appointment is on Friday May 31 at 9:15 pm at the Centro Pecci in Prato, Italy. The lecture by Betsky, which will be followed by a discussion with Gianni Pettena (architect and artist), will offer an original point of view on the landscape projects carried out in the Florentine Planes, in consideration of similar experiences in the Netherlands and in the United States.
photograph : Peppe Maisto
ARTLANDS – complete program of events can be found here: www.artlands.net.
ARTLANDS is promoted by the WWF and realized in collaboration with the Region of Tuscany, the Province of Florence, the Centro Pecci, Municipalities in the Florentine Plane, and is organized by Image.
ARTLANDS Italy images / information from Image
Location: Centro Pecci, Prato, Italy
New Buildings in Florence
Florence Architectural Projects
Florence Architectural Design – chronological list
Florence Architecture
Florence TAV Station
Design: Foster + Partners
image : Foster + Partners
Florence TAV Station
Scandicci New Centre
Design: Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners
image : 7-t ltd
Scandicci New Centre
University Hall of Residence, Novoli
Design: c+s associati
image from architect
Student Housing Florence
Sesto Fiorentino – Gymnasium, nr Florence
Design: Fabio Capanni
photo from KME Awards
Sesto Fiorentino
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