Architecture as mechanism for building community
By: Giancarlo Mazzanti. The Mazzanti agenda / response by Marijn Schenk
Contributors: Schenk, Marijn
Series: Designers of the future -- 8; Designers of the future -- 8.
Publisher: TU Delft Library
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Delft
Language: eng
Number of pages: 50
ISBN-13: 9789461863355
Subjects: Modern Architecture
Other titles: Giancarlo Mazzanti : aArchitecture as mechanism for building community; Mazzanti agenda
Description: Giancarlo Mazzanti was invited this year by the Wouter Mikmak Foundation to lecture in the Designers of the Future series because of the exceptionally engaged character of his architectural practice, wherein he demonstrates that it is also possible to situate social values at the core of architectural design. He aims to empower transformations and build community, focusing on adapting architecture to make it capable of changing behaviour. It is Mazzanti's belief that architecture's worth is based not only on itself but also on what it produces, on its capacity to perform rather than on its capacity to represent. Topical perspectives are illustrated with exemplary case studies.