Accademia di architettura di Mendrisio - AAM

Le dessin à la main occupe toujours une place centrale en architecture. Il fonctionne comme un réservoir d’idées, il est source d’inspiration ou sert à trouver des images de manière ludique, il est un distillateur de pensées et ouvre la voie à l’exploration de soi. Du 5 novembre au 2 décembre 2024, Archizoom présente une sélection exceptionnelle de 160 oeuvres historiques d’architectes suisses et européens ainsi que des dessins inédits de plus de 50 bureaux d’architecture suisses contemporains. Vernissage le 4 novembre 2024 à 18h.

Submit your abstracts (300 words and no more than 2 images) by 31 May 2024. For those coming from abroad, a small level of financial support may be offered.

Du 23 février au 30 juin 2024, l'exposition "L'école de Mendrisio. Un projet - Activité didactique 2022/23", sous la direction de Marco Della Torre et Manuel Orazi sera ouverte au public. L'inauguration publique de l'exposition aura lieu le jeudi 22 février 2024 à 18h30, avec un discours du directeur de l'Académie d'architecture, le professeur Walter Angonese.

The conference will address the long and rich history of Swiss-Italian relations in architecture by bringing together more than 30 academics from more than 15 institutions who will partake in four thematic panels and one roundtable. By featuring a broad chronological framework, the event will shed light on the architectural relationships between Switzerland and Italy since the early modern times, focusing on the intense exchanges of the last seventy years.

Its professional nature notwithstanding, architecture is seldom studied through the activity - design - which characterises its material development. Initiated by the EPFL Doctoral Program in Architecture and Science of the City (EDAR), the 2023 edition of the public seminar SCHOLARS in Transition seeks to focus on the particular, still little understood, type of research, done ‘through’ design.

The aim of the symposium held on 10th of July 2023 at the Accademia di architettura di Mendrisio is to propose a series of heterogeneous interventions that can enrich contemporary urban analysis from original and innovative perspectives. The call is mainly addressed to critical, interdisciplinary theoretical approaches and the presentation of concrete case studies from which wider lessons can be drawn.