Affordances of Architectural Typology – Architecture beyond function [Elective Course at TU Berlin, Study MSc Programme Architecture Typology; Professors Andreas Lechner (TU Graz), Gennaro Postiglione (Politecnico di Milano), Dr. Jörg H. Gleiter (TU Berlin); A.A. 2023] Affordances of Architectural Typology is a design and drawing-based research activity that seeks to explore and further define strategies that…

THE VICTORIA STREET STUDY – A thorough survey of the Architecture of Victoria Street[RMIT Architecture Intensive Design Elective – Masters of Architecture; Professori Lorenzo Bini, Gennaro Postiglione; 19.09.2016 – 26.09.2016] The departing point of the workshop will be a thorough survey of the Architecture of Victoria Street. The long East-West straight stretch seems to be…

Feed Europe – 8 Urban farming scenarios[Feed Europe Erasmus Summer school; students from Lund, POLIMI, Rietveld Academie, AAU; 13.08.2014 – 23.08.2014] Addressing issues of climate change, decreasing resources, food waste, and lifestyle diseases challenging our welfare society, the Feed Europe summer school joins master students of engineering, art, architecture, city planning, and food studies to…

KRAKOWCreating a context[Project Leader: Gennaro Postiglione; Students: Yvon Ariese, Florian Canel, Alex Charrington, Jasper Coppes, Lea Kühne, Phil Morris; 6-20/07/2014] This project presents the opportunity to developing a proposal for a temporary piece of public artwork for Krakow city centre as part of an imagined International Biennale. Working collaboratively, the cross-disciplinary, international groups have been asked to…

Creating a Context, Bologna 2012[Workshop, Prof. Gennaro Postiglione] During the two weeks in Bologna for the IP Creating a Context workshop, our team realised a work consisting of both a physical installation and a video projection. The work focused on Bologna graffiti dealing with the theme of the un-listened voices of bolognese citizens (didn’t matter if Italian,…

Here is the link to browse inside the Leoporelli with the final results of the Erasmus Intensive Programme Workshop ‘Structural Architectures’ held at POLIMI the first two weeks of September 2011. Click here to read the Leporelli 10 Leporelli in a box: structural architectures geometry, code and design Erasmus Intensive Programme I Milano 2011 Editors…

[Raffaele Germano, Midori Hasuike, Eleonora Lupo, Federica Manenti, Cecilia Marchesotti, Lorenzo Polo, Gennaro Postiglione, Francis Leo Tabios, 13/07/2009-31/07/2010] Le proposte progettuali di riuso temporaneo per l’ex edificio a portineria Breda sono sviluppate dalle associazioni culturali Cantieri Isola e Precare.it in accordo con l’agenzia di sviluppo Milano Metropoli, al fine di rendere fruibile e sottrarre al…

ROOMS FOR DAMNEDThe consolation of interiors [by Eleonora Lupo, Gennaro Postiglione; ADSL week 01/02/2010 – 05/02/2010] “Rooms for the damned” are platforms to open discussion on those phenomena we perhaps to easily name as ‘problems’ and address by way of ‘elimination’. The project investigates, questions, analyses, reveals and proposes consolations for commonly perceived failings among…

“Stories From Shapes To Forms”Bibliografie di oggetti[by Eleonora Lupo, Gennaro Postiglione; 16-21/12/2009] Il tema del workshop è un esercizio di progettazione creativa di nuovi oggetti e delle loro narrazioni, biografie e storie, a partire dall’osservazione dei dipinti di Le Corbusier, nell’idea che è proprio l’insieme inscindibile di una “forma” e di una componente intangibile e narrativa (ossia una storia in termini…