Luca Monica

ICAR/14 - Architectural and urban design

Since the beginning didactic activities, research activities and design researches run around the scientific work of Guido Canella, founded on a conception of the spatial expression and the theoretical tradition of the architectural composition elaborated during the Sixties and the Seventies in Italy: the so-called “critica tipologica” of the schools of Milano and Venezia.


Within own personal activity are investigate new operative possibilities starting from the original fundamentals.
These heritage and future perspectives are recognizable in the research and publishing activity: Editor of “Zodiac” (from 1989 to 2001); La critica operativa e l’architettura (2003); Gallaratese Corviale Zen (2008); Il disegno futuro dell’architettura di Guido Canella (2011); Per l’ampliamento dell’Accademia di Brera (2015); Prototipo Dispositivo Tipologia (forthcoming). 
Among the ongoing research issue: The architecture of “prototype” for the interdisciplinary research; The architectures for an extension of the Accademia di Brera at the Farini marshalling field.

He teaches also at the Doctorate program in Architectural Composition, Università IUAV, Venezia.

The personal “histoire d’un dessinateur” (story of a drawer) concerns projects for architecture, interiors, exhibition design, graphic and book design, communication design.
 Among the works, the Monument to the “Barricate” of 1922 in Parma (1997, Luigi Cosenza Prize) and the development of the signage system for the Ferrovie dello Stato, with M.Vignelli (2002), and other projects for railway stations in Italy.

Illustrations
1. Padiglione di Milano Politecnica. Exhibit pavilion for the 150th anniversary of the Politecnico di Milano, 2012. With S.Cusatelli, G.Ferreri, P.Galbiati, M.Manfredi, M.Acito (structures), T.Brighenti, P.Guerrieri.
2. Didactic “prototype” for the linear city Garibaldi–Farini–Bovisa–Expo in Milano, 2012. Model of the Garibaldi Business District.
3. Asylum-Città rifugio. Design for the re-use of the military barracks in Milano, 2014. Con R.Canella, M.Dezzi Bardeschi, G.L.Ferreri.
4. Didactic “prototype” for the extension of the Accademia di Brera at the Farini marshalling field in Milano, 2015.
5. Pedestrian bridge “Della Navetta” in Parma, 2015. With E.Bonelli, R.Poluzzi (structural eng.), Marco Belicchi-Studio Majone (hydraulic eng.), L.Bergamaschi, T.Brighenti, S.Cusatelli, N.Simboli.

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