Nov 3rd 2018

LECTURE: Vittorio Pizzigoni

Vittorio Pizzigoni
Nov. 7, 2018 at 1 p.m.
S. R. Crown Hall | Lower Core

Vittorio Pizzigoni will deliver a lecture "baukuh" on Nov. 7 at 1 p.m. in S. R. Crown Hall.

Vittorio Pizzigoni is an architect and assistant professor at University of Genoa, Italy, where he teaches architectural design. He studied at the IUAV in Venice and at the Universität für Angewandte Kunst in Wien, his PhD Thesis focused on Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s design for the IIT Campus in Chicago. Currently he is Visiting Professor at IIT.

In 2004 he founded the architecture office baukuh, together with P. Carpi, S. Lupi, P. P. Tamburelli, G. Summa, and A. Zanderigo. baukuh completed the House of Memory in Milan (2015) and is currently developing the restoration of the Seminar School in Hoogstraten (Belgium), the construction of the flagship store of the Poretti Brewery in Induno Olona (Italy), the masterplan of the Pupillen site in Aalst (Belgium) and at the strategic plan for the Student City of Tirana (Albania). baukuh took part in the Rotterdam Biennale (2007 and 2011), in the Istanbul Biennial (2012), in the Venice Biennale (2008 and 2012), in the Lisbon Triennale (2016), and in the Chicago Biennial (2015 and 2017).