May Architecture Award 2023. From today, May 25th to 27th, three days of events, including awards, focus and guided tours.
Cimitile (NA): Complex of Early Christian Basilicas – Church of San Tommaso
The career award of Maggio dell'Architettura 2023 will be assigned to a woman for the first time. The coveted recognition, the Matita d'Oro 2023 Award, will be awarded to Architect Maria Giuseppina Grasso Cannizzo.
The events continue with three consecutive days of events from today, Thursday 25th to Saturday 27th May, promoted by the SiebenArchi Foundation as part of the “Maggio dell'Architettura_annosedici” exhibition, currently underway in the evocative complex of the Paleochristian Basilicas of Cimitile (Naples).
«Review that extends from architecture to cultural solicitations – says the President of SaibenArchi Claudio Bozzaotra – Disciplines that seem distant interact with each other. We host architects, urban planners, architecture and art historians, sound and visual installations, such as the “Mitra” by Beniamino Servino that takes over the space of one of the vaults of the Early Christian Basilicas to become a spatial work. A month of events to encourage greater incursions between art and architecture, but above all to stimulate the imagination and reaffirm the cultural role of Architecture on the humanistic, ethical, social, environmental and economic levels by calling protagonists of the different fields of analysis to the discussion».
It starts on Thursday 25 May from 17pm to 21pm, with an in-depth look at the theme “Lifespan – Life Expectancy”. At the opening there will be the opportunity to take part in a guided tour of the Basilicas, dating back to the XNUMXrd and XNUMXth centuries AD and the sound installation by Gabriele Montagano, RUAH (for instruments, voices, blowing, water, birds and electroacoustic dissipation).
Following the delivery of the “Matita d'Oro 2023” Award to the architect Maria Giuseppina Grasso Cannizzo, recognized protagonist of the national architectural scene. The President of the National Council of Architects PPC Francesco Miceli will present it.
On Friday, May 26, from 17:21 p.m. to 2023:27 p.m., Professor Guendalina Salimei, 9 May Architecture Award winner, will illustrate her experiences on the theme “The unbearable lightness of the suburbs”. On Saturday, May 14, from XNUMX:XNUMX a.m. to XNUMX:XNUMX p.m., the Cimitilian May will conclude, with a focus on “Project stories: processes, innovation and technologies” on the artist Beniamino Servino, with the final report entrusted to Stefano Cesario of Studio Foster+Partners, one of the most well-known international architecture studios.
BIO MARIA GIUSEPPINA GRASSO CANNIZZO
Born in Sicily, in Vittoria in 1948, she graduated in 1974 in Architecture at the University of Rome La Sapienza. From 1974 to 1980 she devoted herself mainly to teaching at the course of Restoration of Monuments of the Faculty of Architecture of Rome with Prof. Franco Minissi. In 1980 she moved to Turin where she collaborated, for Fiat Engineering, on the project of reconstruction of the historical centers in Basilicata. Since 1986 she has lived in Sicily in her hometown.
In 2008 she was among the five architects invited to the competition for the curatorship and installation of the Italian Pavilion at the XI Venice Architecture Biennale. In 2016 the jury of the XV Venice Architecture Biennale awarded her the Special Mention for the installation Onore Perduto with which she participated in the exhibition Reporting from the front curated by Alejandro Aravena. In 2018 she participated in the exhibition FREESPACE curated by Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, XVI Venice Architecture Biennale.
She has received numerous awards and recognitions, including: the RIBA Awards/EU for the construction of a house in Noto (2012); the Gold Medal for Lifetime Achievement awarded by the Jury of the Milan Triennale (2012). In 2019 she was nominated for the Mies van der Rohe Award. Her rigorous and masterfully crafted design activity is documented in numerous publications and industry magazines. Among the exhibitions dedicated to her work, we remember the solo exhibition “Loose Ends”, held at the AUT Architektur und Tirol gallery in Innsbruck in 2014.
Article published on May 25, 2023 - 17:00 pm
