Full Professor GIUSEPPE TERRAGNI in ROME
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Jean- Jean-François Lejeune teaches architectural design, urban design, and history-theory. From June 2009 to December 2014 he was the Director of Graduate Studies. In 2007 he was an Affiliated Fellow at the American Academy in Rome. Born in Belgium, he graduated from the University of Liège (Belgium) with the Diploma of Engineer-Architect. He is now a Ph.D. François candidate at TU DelU, Netherlands. His research field is history of architecture and urbanism of the 20th century, from Miami to Spain to LaYn America. He curated exhibiYons in Brussels and Miami, and has received various awards for his books and scholarly works. He is currently Lejeune at work on his dissertaYon Reciprocal Influences: Rural Utopia, Metropolis and Modernity in Franco’s Spain and a monograph, Loos and Schinkel: The Metropolis between the Individual Full Professor and the CollecBve (Routledge). Top: MOMA, Latin Architecture in Construction 1955-1980, view of one of Architettura moderna e il Mediterraneo, Trento, Listlab, 2016 Modern Architecture and the Mediterranean, London, Routledge, 2010 the seven models built by UMSOA students. Bottom: exhibition poster, Cuban Architects at Home and in Exile, curators Lejeune & Deup (poster design Veruska Vasconez) Droneport, University of Illinois, 2016. Design Team member, Brillhart Architecture. Sitte, Hegemann and the Metropolis, London, Routledge, 2009 Cruelty and Utopia, New York, Princeton Architectural Press, 2005 The Making of Miami Beach 1933-42, New York/Miami, Rizzoli, 2001 JEAN FRANCOIS LEJEUNE Arquitecto, Profesor en University of Miami / USA imagen: Adolf Loos, esbozo para Ministerios en el centro de Viena, 1917 CONFERENCIA L O O S E N V I E N A RAUMKUNST Y AMERICANISMO ENTRE SITTE Y SCHINKEL 20 MARZO ANGIOLO MAZZONI 16:00 hrs. COLABORA E L’ARCHITETTURA FUTURISTA 2015 ORGANIZA AULA 0.5 - Esc. Arquitectura UAH ENTRADA LIBRE hasta completar aforo Supplemento a CE.S.A.R. - settembre - dicembre 2008, anno 2, numero 5/6 • Poste Italiane S.p.A. • Spedizione in Abbonamento Postale • D.L. 353/2003 (conv. in legge 27/02/2004 n. 46) Art.1, Comma 2 • CNS/AC • Taxe perqué - tassa riscossa • Roma GIUSEPPE TERRAGNI in $VSBUFECZ'MBWJP.BOHJPOF-VDB3JCJDIJOJ ROME Giuseppe Terragni (1904 – 1943) demands of tradition, and a per- was an Italian architect who sonal quest to deploy a rationalist worked under the fascist regime language anchored in the classical of Benito Mussolini and was one of and vernacular sides of mediter- the pioneers of the Italian modern raneità. The exhibition also aims movement or Italian Rationalism. to highlight the importance of his His most famous works were built many collaborators, particularly April 9th in and around the city of Como in the artists Marcello Nizzoli, Ma- northern Italy, including the Casa rio Radice and Mario Sironi, who Opening 7pm to 10pm del Fascio (1932 to 1936). The exhi- played an important role in the bition Giuseppe Terragni in Rome development of architectural proj- now presented at The Meeting ects. April 16th House is a critical reading of the The exhibition was first present- Conference works that he designed for the ed at the Casa dell’architettura in 2:30pm to 6pm at MCAD city of Rome from 1932 to 1940. Rome (2015) and embraces a vari- The ten projects—which include ety of media, including new digital TERRAGNI IN ROME IN MIAMI Panel with: the monument/museum to Dante reconstructions by students and Silvia Barisione (The Wolfsonian-FIU), Alighieri, the Danteum—allow us faculty from Università della Sapi- Pat Bosch (Perkins&Will), to effectively frame the complex enza in Rome. For the presentation Jason Chandler (FIU), figure of an architect who joined in Miami, new 3-d printed models Carmen Guerrero (UofM), the battle for the Italian architec- were produced at the University Jean-François Lejeune (UM), tural avant-garde, while confront- of Miami School of Architecture. David Rifkind (FIU) ing the historic urban context, the Exhibition Hours: 1-5pm 05/09 - 05/14 168 SE 1st Street - PH Floor (Downtown) Miami FL 33131 meetinghousemiami.org Top left to right: Proceedings Do.co.mo.mo Lisbon, 2016 [Essay: William Morgan’s Tropical Brutalism] / Angiolo Mazzoni e l’architettura futurista, Roma, 2013 Essay: Futurismo e città di fondazione: Guidonia Città Futurista, 2011 / Poster lecture, Madrid, 2015 / CLOG, 2013, Essays: Miami Concrete, Terra Fluxus: Private Infrastructure as Public Architecture] / Poster exhibition UMSOA, 2015. Bottom left to right: Lecture poster, Toledo, 2015 / Mediterranei, Milano, 2015 [Essay: Le Corbusier, Costa, Niemeyer e il ‘vernacolare moderno’ in Brazil] / Bulletin CE.S.A.R., 2011 [Essay: Città di fondazione in Spagna, 1944-1969 / Teatro Maritimo #5, Madrid, 2016 [Essay: Antonioni’s L’eclisse or the End of Architecture] / Poster and exhibition view Terragni in Rome, Miami, 2016 (curators Mangione, Lejeune). .