the art is in the street 2012
LdM at Salone del Mobile in Milan
“Aprile” by Daniel Reyes, Nicole Desjardins and Manuel Gonzalez
Our Sustainable Design class, in partnership with Recuperiamoci is happy to announce that 4 objects made by our students will be exhibited during the Salone del Mobile in Milan!
Recuperiamoci is a design company whose main goal is to rehabilitate convicts by letting them make sustainable objects and by then letting them learn a profession. What our students do is offer Recuperiamoci their projects as a creative contribution.
Thanks to Recuperiamoci and most of all to the brilliant creativity of our students, this year 4 objects will be displayed in the “Young and Rubicam” office in Via Tortona 37 during the Salone del Mobile, from April 18th to April 22nd.
These pieces of sustainable art are:
“Aprile” chair and table. Made by our Spring 2012 LdM students Daniel Reyes, Nicole Desjardins and Manuel Gonzalez with pneumatics and bed slats.
“Droid” table lamp. Made during the 2011 Fall semester by LdM students Camila Biteli, Liliana Savage and Sandra Bergstrom with 2 car front foglamps, 2 piston rods and a disk brake.
“Achille” floor lamp. Made by LdM students Eduardo Reyes and Fernanda Verissimo during Fall 2011 using the wheel of a Fiat 500, the lamp of a Volkswagen Polo and an iron pipe.
Good job guys! And of course, thanks to Andrea Parigi, LdM Sustainable Design teacher!!
“Droid” by Camila Biteli, Liliana Savage and Sandra Bergstrom
“Achille” by Eduardo Reyes and Fernanda Verissimo
Visit to Renzo Piano’s Foundation
On February 24th we visited the “Chile” of Italy, Liguria region. Its narrowed shape reminded us about South America, with its beautiful ocean and tropical surrounding, especially Chile. The main point of the trip was to visit Renzo Piano’s Foundation near his building workshop. We noticed that his main inspiration is sailing technology and it has been applied to most of his works. The tour started at the Foundation’s conference room where Onur Teke, an architect from the office, made a presentation of a project in which they have been working for the past 3 years, the expansion of the “Kimbell Art Museum” in Fort Worth. The goal is to create an expansion of the “Kimbell Museum” made by Louis Kahn. They showed us all the concepts and ideas they had at the beginning and we were amazed by the process of continuous evolvement of the project, even when they already had all the plans made. We realized how projects don’t always end up to be what we thought at first and that there has to be a lot of studies made before deciding how the project will be. One thing that impacted us was the mockups, we had never heard that architects did real-size models before. When the talk came to an end it was amazing how all of us were interested with the presentation. We went to an exhibition room in which a lot of models and plans were displayed. We were there over an hour taking pictures and noticing how detailed the plans were made. It was amazing the work put on the models, they looked like real constructions on a different scale. After that we went outside to see the mockups and we took a group picture in front of the mock up detail of the Jean Marie Cultural Centre project,in Noumea (New Caledonia). When the visit to the Foundation was over, we went to Porto Antico. Porto Antico is a very ancient harbor in the old city center, which is one of the biggest original city centers in Europe. It is the rehabilitation of the Porto Antico made by RPBW and we noticed all the elements and inspirations that we learned from the Foundation that were displayed in Porto Antico. This place is very important to Renzo because as he says, the deep inspiration in a man’s life it’s formed in the first five years of his existence and this place is where it all began, where he took his inspiration. “I have always had a love/hate relationship with Genoa, one that implied not just flight but return as well. It is curious to realize what deep traces this land leaves”, said Montale. Perhaps it would be more logical for me to live in Paris or London, but I prefer to come back here, whenever I can”. (Renzo Piano-Logbook)
by Brenda Cecilia Porras
Anselm Kiefer
