The meeting on the occasion of the presentation of the finalist projects
July 20, 2018 - Create a public discussion that opens a dialogue with the city of Rome on the role of architecture in creating new relationships with the community and in offering scenarios of urban regeneration in fragmented contexts. With this objective, the international symposium "Architecture at the service of university institutions: Innovative spaces to inspire new models to support training and research" took place on 18 July at the MAXXI museum. The event, which involved prestigious speakers arriving in Rome from every corner of the world, was organized by Campus Bio-Medico SpA, the University's promoter, as a corollary to the two days which saw the presentation by seven studios of architecture, of the projects competing in the international competition organized byUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma to implement the Development Plan intended to expand the activities, services offered and spaces dedicated to teaching, research and medical assistance (www.futureunicampus.com).
“The meeting at MAXXI brings together scientists, teaching experts and architects from all over the world to reflect on the active cooperation between different disciplinary fields to build new spaces for university education and research in the near future and, on the occasion of our competition international master plan design for the next 30 years, is a dialogue that we open to the whole city, professionals and institutions”, explained the general manager of Campus Bio-Medico SpA, Domenico Mastrolitto.
The symposium was attended by, among others, Mattia Fantinati, Undersecretary of State to the Presidency of the Council of Ministers for Public Administration, Angela Tecce, manager of the Urban Peripheries Service of the DGAAP of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism, Enrico Onorati, Councilor for the Environment and Agriculture of the Lazio Region, Luca Montuori, Councilor for Urban Planning of Roma Capitale, Margaret Guccione, architecture director of the MAXXI Museum, Dominic Mastrolitto, general manager of Campus Bio-Medico SpA, Daniel DiFausto, CEO of eFM SpA, Armando Zambrano, president of the National Council of Engineers, e Luca Ribichini of the Casa Cultura Commission of the Order of Architects of Rome. The meeting was moderated and conducted by Luca Molinari, scientific curator, with his studio, of the international competition and from Martha Thorne, director general of the Pritzker Architecture Prize.
Concrete examples of excellence were presented that contributed to establishing higher standards and approaches to public space, education and research infrastructure, environmental and landscape design strategies that promoted an alternative sustainable agenda of our daily lives. “The symposium dedicated to the relationship between Education and Architecture is not only the positive consequence of the international competition just completed for the doubling of theUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma but above all it is proof that behind an important client and the challenge for a widespread quality of the environments that we will experience in the future there is the desire to build open dialogues and interweaving between different disciplines" he commented Luca Molinari. There were many significant exchanges between the speakers of the three dialogue sessions: Models of spatial/didactic organization for innovation, Examples of possible urban regeneration, Architectures at the service of people.
