Stories about Sustainability presents ideas inspired by architecture, materials and history from around the world.
To start the series, Mario Cucinella, founder of Mario Cucinella Architects, will talk about his new book The Future is a Journey to the Past and explain how these journeys have influenced his architectural practice today. He will also introduce the The Future is a Journey to the Past: Stories about Sustainability exhibition curated by Mario Cucinella Architects at the AA.
Mario Cucinella founded Mario Cucinella Architects in Bologna, Italy, in 1999. He has taught at the Universities of Ferrara, Nottingham, Munich, and Naples, and in 2015 he founded the School of Sustainability (SOS) in Bologna. He curated the Italian Pavilion at the 16th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale and was the editor of the catalogue Arcipelago Italia. He regularly collaborates with AA Sustainable Environmental Design (SED), directed by Simos Yannas.
His presentation will be followed by a conversation with Clara Olóriz Sanjuán, director of the AA Ground Lab.
Clara Olóriz Sanjuán is director of AA Ground Lab where she develops climate change policy projects. Her research interests lie in technology, territory, landscape and prototypes. Her cartographic book Landscape as Territory, published by Actar Publishers in 2019, critically addresses the agency of architects in the so-called ‘Urban Age’.
The Stories about Sustainability series coincides with the exhibition The Future is a Journey to the Past: Stories about Sustainability curated by Mario Cucinella Architects and open in the AA Gallery from 23 September until 29 October.
The exhibition explores past and present notions of sustainability in order to develop the ecological thinking necessary to bridge the divide between the natural world and human activity.
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