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Roberto Zancan

Roberto Zancan, PhD, is Professor of History and Theory of Architecture at HEAD – Geneve. He has been Deputy Editor of the monthly magazine of architecture, design and art Domus, head curator of Inside the Academy Program for BE OPEN Foundation and associate researcher at UNESCO Chair in Conservation and Regeneration of Urban Heritage of Iuav University in Venice; Professor of History and Theory of Environmental Design at UQAM University of Montreal. Founder of the group Ground Action, his works have been selected for the official section of the Venice Biennale of Architecture, the Biennial of Design in Ljubljana and Triennal of Lisboa. He wrote Corrispondenze: Teorie e storie dal landscape, et Spazialismi italiani. Recently he published L'architecture par l'intérieur. Concepts et imaginaires d'une discipline en devenir.
  • Sound, Narrative, Performative and Spatial Sequences

    by
    • Bertrand Bacqué
    • Loïse Bulot
    • Carla Demierre
    • Arielle Meyer MacLeod
    • Joaquim Moreno
    • Nicolas Rabaeus
    • Roberto Zancan

    These lectures highlight the physical and material dimension of montage in various contexts outside cinema. Through musical composition, theatre, architecture or literary creation, montage can be a technique as much as a subject or a metadiscourse; one…

  • Hey, Hey, My My... Can Monuments Ever Die?

    by
    • Luigi Guzzardi
    • Elena Pirazzoli
    • Roberto Zancan

    All those who have visited the Venice Biennale have noticed a monument on the waterfront in front of the Giardini, almost in front of the Swiss Pavilion. It is the famous memorial Alla Partigiana, designed by Carlo Scarpa – the master of post-…