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Giancarlo Mazzanti

Each year The Architectural League’s Current Work series features the work of significant international figures who powerfully influence contemporary architectural practice and shape the future of the built environment. Giancarlo Mazzanti will present his firm’s work in a public lecture.

Giancarlo Mazzanti’s firm, El Equipo de Mazzanti approaches architectural design as a catalyst that “triggers behaviors and new dynamics, encouraging people to act in ways they will never think to act.” For Mazzanti, architecture represents an evolving process rather than a static, finished object.

The firm’s 2015 contribution to the inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial articulated this reciprocal design approach.El Equipo de Mazzanti collaborated with Nicolas París on “Speaking Architecture,” an interactive installation that encouraged visitors to write, make models, and assemble objects so as to “confront the unknown and recognize the limits of their own knowledge.” In 2016, they participated in the 15th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennial with “Trustics” an installation that instigated visitors to edit and rearrange video-recorded narratives to examine how architecture is complicit in creating networks of trust.











When: Tue., Oct. 25, 2016 at 7:00 pm

Each year The Architectural League’s Current Work series features the work of significant international figures who powerfully influence contemporary architectural practice and shape the future of the built environment. Giancarlo Mazzanti will present his firm’s work in a public lecture.

Giancarlo Mazzanti’s firm, El Equipo de Mazzanti approaches architectural design as a catalyst that “triggers behaviors and new dynamics, encouraging people to act in ways they will never think to act.” For Mazzanti, architecture represents an evolving process rather than a static, finished object.

The firm’s 2015 contribution to the inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial articulated this reciprocal design approach.El Equipo de Mazzanti collaborated with Nicolas París on “Speaking Architecture,” an interactive installation that encouraged visitors to write, make models, and assemble objects so as to “confront the unknown and recognize the limits of their own knowledge.” In 2016, they participated in the 15th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennial with “Trustics” an installation that instigated visitors to edit and rearrange video-recorded narratives to examine how architecture is complicit in creating networks of trust.

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