CAMPUS ARATA – PIACENZA – VIA SCALABRINI 113
May, the 14th, 2014
MULTI-SCALE ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN STUDIO
prof. GUYA BERTELLI, prof. SANDRO ROLLA, prof. ANDREA CAMMARATA
prof. HERVE’ DUBOIS, prof. IOANNI DELSANTE, prof. GIANLUCA VITA
INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR
TYPES AND SOCIAL EXPECTATIONS IN RECENT HOUSING CASE-STUDIES
The seminar’s main goal is a wide discussion about issues of housing design in contemporary
societies and in contemporary urban conditions.
Housing is a topical in architectural and urban panorama: the crisis we’re involved in is requiring an
updating of traditional housing typologies, social questions are strongly transforming needs and
expectations, sustainability is becoming a key-factor in design and building, new housing districts
are often the only way to re-use and to re-generate large areas of our cities and of our territories.
The seminar program is developed around 2 case-studies presented by their architects:
Nathalie Regnier-Kagan
86 housing units and commercial spaces in Marseille, France (2012), by MKA – Michel Kagan
Architecture et Associes
Fabrizio Rossi Prodi
Fondazione Housing Sociale 126 housing units in Milano via Cenni, Italy (2013), by ROSSIPRODI
ASSOCIATES
Foto Riccardo Ronchi
Case-studies are not just examples of design, but they’re great occasions for a critical focus about:
- new housing typologies, in comparison with Modern models
- mixing between housing and commercial activities
- social implications and requirements in social housing projects
- balance between privacy and public spaces
- integration of new housing districts in contemporary cities and territories
- innovative materials and technologies, mainly oriented to a sustainable design and building.
INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR
TYPES AND SOCIAL EXPECTATIONS IN RECENT HOUSING CASE-STUDIES
WEDNESDAY 14.05.2014
PROGRAM (Padiglione Nicelli)
10.00 am
INTRODUCTION
Michele Roda
10.40 am
LECTURE I
Nathalie Regnier-Kagan
11.20 am
LECTURE II
Fabrizio Rossi Prodi
12.00 am
DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION
BIOGRAPHIES
Nathalie Régnier-Kagan
Born in La Rochelle, France, Nathalie Régnier-Kagan graduated as a state-registered architect from the Paris Belleville
School in 1989 and completed graduate studies (DEA) in “le projet architectural et urbain” at the University of Paris 8French Institute of Urbanism in 1994. Her graduate work was selected for exhibit in “20 years of teaching architecture in
France” at the Architecture Exposition at La Villette in 1989. She earned the “Delano & Aldrich” scholarship from the
American Institute of Architects in 1990. After practicing at the Richard Meier & Partners in New York in 1990, then at the
Pierre Riboulet agency in Paris as Project Manager from 1991 to 192, she submitted projects in her own name to
architectural competitions and completed single-family houses and renovations in Charente Maritime. Nathalie practiced
as an assistant then associate with Michel Kagan form 1992 until his death in 2009. Presently she is manager of the
company and continues the work started with Michel Kagan. In addition to her architectural practice, she has taught
theory and conception of the architectural and urban project as a tenured senior lecturer in the National Schools of
architecture since 1994 (Rennes from 1994 to1997, Versailles from 1997 to 2007, Paris-Val de Seine since 2007). In
May 2011 she became the Honorary Fellowship of the RIAS (Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland).
www.kagan-architectures.com
Fabrizio Rossi Prodi
Fabrizio Rossi Prodi was born and received his formal training in Firenze, Italy. He is full professor of Architectural and
Urban Design at the Architecture Faculty in Firenze, Italy, where he is member of the Teaching Board of the Doctorate in
Architectural and Urban Design. He has promoted and taken part in seminars, conventions, and gave lectures on the
issues of contemporary architecture and the city; he has published over eighty essays, and eight books amongst which
L’architettura dell’ospedale, Costruire-decostruire (1992); Atopia e memoria (1994); Franco Albini (1996); Carattere
dell’architettura toscana (2003). In 1994 he was awarded the XX international prize for architecture Leonardo da Vinci.
In his design research he works on the issues of identity and the characters of places and architecture, dealing with the
alterations affected by post-modernity to human relationships, to visual communication and perception. He is also
interested in sustainability, new materials and the synthesis of different disciplines in the project. But in general he seeks
for a humanization of the project, probably the main heritage of his “florentine” origin, that he pursues in the connections
between architectural organisms and urban places, landscape, hybridizations between construction and nature, the
rehearsal of institutional and social values. He has partaken in international contests. In 2007 Alinea Editrice published a
monography on his work, titled Fabrizio Rossi Prodi – Architetture 1996-2006.
www.rossiprodi.it
INFORMATIONS
Michele Roda michele.roda@polimi.it