ANNALISA ROSSO Milan Taglietti Symposium ENRICO Design journalist, independent curator. TAGLIETTI Elsewhere, to find Architect their own voice In the 1950s, Italian Enrico Taglietti’s distinct design enjoyed a WELCOME & ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS and highly personal period of extraordinary design character is effervescence. This was MC: Genevieve Jacobs expressed through his especially the case use of unusual sculptural shapes and angles, cantilevered Journalist & arts enthusiast in Milan, where iconic planes of roof and deck, and concrete. Italian-born and buildings such as the trained, Taglietti featured in the Museum of Modern Art Velasca Tower by BBPR and the Pirelli Tower by INTRODUCTION 1979 exhibition, ‘Transformations in Modern Architecture’. were under construction. Manufacturers such as Fiat, Rachael Coghlan He completed his architectural studies at the Milan Olivetti and Cassina were forging ahead with innovation. CEO, Craft ACT, Artistic Director, DESIGN Canberra Polytechnic, studying under such luminaries as Gio Ponti, This was the postwar economic boom, la Dolce Vita. , Bruno Zevi and . In March Back then, everything seemed to be made by designers. PRESENTATION: NEW BEGINNINGS 2007 Taglietti was awarded Australia’s most prestigious ‘From the spoon to the city’ is how the architect Ernesto architecture prize—the Royal Australian Institute of Gordon Ramsay, MLA, ACT Arts Minister Nathan Rogers described the wide-open realm of design Architects (RAIA) Gold Medal for Architecture. in 1952. Yet the 1950s is also when many decided to leave the country to seek their own path. Lina Bo Bardi became GIANMATTEO ROMEGIALLI Milan a Brazilian citizen in 1951. Massimo and Lella Vignelli moved to the United States in 1957. Enrico Taglietti Architect arrived in Australia in 1955. This trend has continued, SESSION 1: INTERNATIONAL LANDSCAPE but the world has become smaller nowadays. Gianmatteo Romegialli is a Brilliant designers such as FormaFantasma left Italy KEYNOTE long-time collaborator with Enrico Taglietti. He is an for The Netherlands while maintaining a constant, Annalisa Rosso fruitful link with their homeland. Transnational examples architect based in Milan, are numerous. Philippe Malouin left Canada for the Elsewhere, to find their own voice working from the Act UK, Ron Gilad left Tel Aviv for Milan. The importance Romegialli studio together of the place they choose to establish their office is relative. PUBLIC CONVERSATION with Angela Maria Today, just like yesterday, design knows no borders. Enrico Taglietti with Gianmatteo Romegialli Romegialli and Erika Gaggia Enrico Taglietti is a case in point. VH, He regularly travels to study and work in Australia, collaborating with Taglietti on PHILIP GOAD LUNCH 12:15-12:55 projects and competitions. Chair of Architecture, Melbourne University, Gandall Hall visiting Chair, Australian Studies, Harvard University

Placing Taglietti – Houses in Landscape KAREN MCCARTNEY SESSION 2: LIVING HISTORY Landscape has played a major role in the design and Architecture editor, author the promotion of the post-war Australian house. In many ways, dialogue with the land can be, and has been Philip Goad The home as laboratory reveals the man regarded as the leitmotif, the defining element Placing Taglietti Houses in Landscape ‘There is a concept I’d always been attached to: the of Australian architecture. But the complexity of response principle that to be a modern architect, one has to sever to that idea has been little investigated nor appropriately Gina Levenspiel oneself totally from the past and ask questions as though differentiated. It is also, of course, only one way of looking In defence of the original building as nothing existed before, Canberra was the ideal place’ at Australian architecture. This paper places the houses a medium for architectural knowledge – Enrico Taglietti. of Enrico Taglietti within the rich tapestry of post-war In this keynote Karen responses to the ongoing experiment that is the post- McCartney will explore war Australian house where connections to a landscape the public and private - be it urban, suburban, or rural - have prompted SESSION 3: DESIGN AS A CREATIVE PROCESS nature of Enrico Taglietti’s inventive and original results. What becomes clear is world, starting with his the unique and distinctive Karen McCartney appreciation of the clean place that Taglietti’s slate he saw in Canberra. The home as laboratory reveals the man architecture occupies, In the 50s he established where geometry, mass a home in Griffith which, and engineering combine alongside his studio, with the fundamentals became a laboratory of ideas This talk will explore the AFTERNOON TEA 3:10-3:35 of dwelling and signal not intimate details of his immediate surroundings and how just creative originality Gandall Hall this experimental philosophy and constant curiosity but also links back manifests in the broader expression of his architecture. to Taglietti’s Italian heritage and the founding principles of an architecture for Australia’s capital and its territory. SESSION 4: TAGLIETTI PEOPLE DAVE PIGRAM Sydney Computational designer, Supermanoeuvre. GINA LEVENSPIEL Melbourne Dave Pigram Durability research architect Inspiring wonder: Architecture beyond the flat roof Inspiring Wonder: Architecture beyond the flat roof Dave Pigram uses In defence of the original building as a medium for TAGLIETTI PEOPLE PANEL computational design architectural knowledge and advanced fabrication Do we have access to the important architectural Dave Pigram processes to build unique knowledge of Enrico Taglietti through the conservation Supermanouvre architect, architectural spaces of his buildings? Many of his distinguished works are also former Giralang Primary student globally. In this lecture mass concrete construction, and the material tends Pigram reflects on Enrico to coincide with permanence itself. Yet when we study Elizabeth Paterson Taglietti’s influence on the St Kilda library today, or Dickson Library in Canberra, Artist, grew up in a Taglietti Home his work with specific we see that a great irremovable variance has occurred Bob Beasec reference to the design to the original architecture. Dr Levenspiel will discuss of roofs that bend, curve or fold to engage with more Builder of Giralang Primary school how this model of conservation affects our knowledge than simple weather protection. Inspired by his time as plus many others of Enrico’s designs production of Enrico’s architectural legacy and a 4- to 11-year-old student at Giralang Primary School, present optional pathways that support the profession Tanja Taglietti Dave credits not only his decision to become an architect of architecture as an object of conservation. Daughter of Enrico and artist to Enrico but also the aspiration to in turn inspire wonder in the future inhabitants of his own buildings. Belinda Love Principal, Giralang Primary

SESSION 5: THE FUTURE

FINAL THOUGHTS OF THE DAY

SYMPOSIUM CLOSE 5:00 One city

Captions: all speaker photos provided. Giralang Primary School 150+ events and both Enrico Taglietti portraits with permission from the NAA Join us at East Space (5 minute walk) for the closing reception archives. of the exhibition, Depth of Field: Taglietti in Canberra, 5-6:30pm DesignCanberraFestival.com.au