Guido Morpurgo
Conferences-Seminars
Invited speaker by the Ordine degli Architetti P.P. e C. della Provincia di Padova. Conference title: Inattualità di Franco Albini: una lezione per il presente. Venue: conference held remotely.
16.05.2024
Delegated speaker by the Rector of the Iuav University of Venice, in the context of the plenary session of the ‘Meeting of Rectors and Chancellors Mexico’. Organiser: Embajada de México, Rome. Title of the speech: ‘Domus barraganiana. Iuav University of Venice / ITESO-Guadalajara, 2022’. VENUE: Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Republic, Rome.
18.04.2024
Interview at the invitation of the Culture and Society Department of RSI-Radiotelevisione Svizzera di lingua italiana, Canale Due. Title of the programme hosted by Emanuela Burganzoli: ‘Voci dipinte’, in-depth cultural broadcast on the theme of showcases in museum exhibitions, in relation to the exhibition ‘Exposure. Arte, cultura e moda dentro e fuori la vetrina’, at MUDEC, Milan 1.03.2024 - 8.09.2024, exhibition curated by Katya Inozemtseva and Sara Rizzo. Venue: radio programme.
09.03.2024
Speaker at the mandate of the Rector of the Iuav University of Venice in the context of the celebrations of the ‘Day of Remembrance’ 2024 (law no. 211 of 20 July 2000) in the Citizens' Coordination of the City of Venice, under the patronage of the ’Polin. Museum of the History of Polish Jews’, Warsaw. Conference title: The Hermetic City. Archaeology of the Warsaw Ghetto: ruins and project for memory. Venue: Iuav University of Venice, Aula Magna live streaming.
23.01.2024
Invited Speaker as Guest Lecturer by XJTLU- Xi'an Jiaotong Liverpool University, Sozhou (People Republic of China), Department of Architecture, Guest Lecturer Series 2023-2024. Title: 中 An Extensive Urban Interior. The Project of the Central Belt of the New City of Pujiang. Venue: Conference held remotely.
23.11.2023
Invited speaker at the international workshop ‘Erasmus Plus BIP / Europe in Transition’. Title: Venice, The Waterproof Superfortress. An Exhibition at the Forte di Sant'Andrea on the Architecture of Infrastructures of Defence against water from the Renaissance to Mose and beyond. Venue: Iuav University of Venice. Conference held remotely.
02.10.2023
Invited speaker at the W.A.VE- Talks, within the framework of the Workshop Architecture Venice 2023. Title: Timeless Time. The Shoah Memorial of Milan 2004-2022 - Morpurgo de Curtis Architetti Associati. VENUE: Iuav University of Venice. Lecture in English.
04.07.2023
Invited speaker at the ‘Atto preparativo di un ricordo, urgente, di Vittorio Gregotti’, as part of the ‘Milano Arch Week 2023’. VENUE: Triennale di Milano.
06.05.2023
Speaker at the mandate of the Rector of the Iuav University of Venice in the context of the celebrations of the ‘Day of Remembrance’ 2023 (law 20 July 2000 n.211) in the City Coordination of the City of Venice, under the patronage of the ‘Council of Europe. Bureau of Venice’. Conference title: The Architecture of Auschwitz. VENUE: Iuav University of Venice, Aula Magna live streaming.
23.01.2023
Speaker invited by the Municipality of Fidenza in the context of the conference cycle ‘Planet City. Architectures in comparison between urban and global. Towards the new General Urban Plan’. Title: I tempi lunghi della città. Venue: Ridotto of the Gerolamo Damiani Theatre, Fidenza.
17.05.2022
Speaker invited by the Italian Cultural Institute of Madrid and Centro Sefarad Israel de Madrid, for the celebrations of the ‘Day of Remembrance’ 2024 (Law no. 211 of 20 July 2000). Title: El Memorial de la Shoá de Milán. Un documento repensado a través de la arquitectura. VENUE: Italian Cultural Institute of Madrid.
26.01.2022
Speaker at the mandate of the Rector of the Iuav University of Venice in the context of the celebrations of the ‘Day of Remembrance’ 2024 (law 20 July 2000 n.211) in the Citizens' Coordination of the City of Venice, under the patronage of the ’Polin. Museum of the History of Polish Jews’, Warsaw. Conference title: Architettura per la Memoria. Icone retoriche o forme significanti? Venue: Iuav University of Venice, Aula Magna live streaming.
25.01.2022
Speaker invited by the Italian Institute of Culture in Belgrade for the celebrations of the ‘Holocaust Memorial Day’ 2024 (law 20 July 2000 n.211). Title: The Shoah Memorial in Milan. Venue: conference held remotely.
18.01.2022
Invited keynote speaker at the conference ReUso Roma 2021 - IX international conference. Session: Architectural pre-existences. Title: Guido Canali. VENUE: University ‘La Sapienza’, Rome, Aula Magna.
02.12.2021
Speaker invited by the University of Italian Switzerland - Academy of Architecture with Arch. Annalisa de Curtis for the lecture cycle ‘Eight architectures within reach of the Academy’. Title: Shoah Memorial in Milan. Venue: Architecture Theatre, Academy of Architecture, Mendrisio.
25.03.2021
Speaker Invited by ESAD-Escuela Superior de Arquitectura Design, Matosinhos (Porto), Maestrado Design de interiores. Conference entitled: ‘The Memorial of the Shoah of Milan: an Urban Interior for the Present’.
VENUE: ESAD, Matosinhos-Porto
29.01.2020
Speaker Invited by the Italian Cultural Institute of Lisbon for the 2020 Holocaust Memorial Day celebrations. Conference entitled: ‘The Shoah Memorial project in Milan’. VENUE: Imprensa Nacional - Casa da Moeda, Lisbon. Presentation by Prof. João Rocha, Director of the Department of Architecture, University of Évora
28.01.2020
Invited speaker - Conference in the context of the initiative ‘I Musei della Memoria. Architetture che raccontano. IV Edizione’ entitled “Il Memoriale della Shoah di Milano architettura dell’indelebile” in the context of the initiative ’21 il binario nero dell’Indifferenza. Il Memoriale della Shoah di Milano. Dall’invisibile al visibile’. With: Arch. Annalisa de Curtis, Prof. Jacques Gubler. VENUE: Ezio De Felice Foundation, Donn'Anna Palace Theatre, Naples
27.01.2020
Invited speaker at the PHD workshop ‘Museums, Architecture and the City: Public Spaces and Spaces of Memory’. Research programme: SPEME. Questioning Traumatic Heritage: Spaces of Memory in Europe, Argentina, Colombia Horizon 2020. Grant agreement ID: 778044. Title: The Shoah Memorial in Milan: structure, form, architecture. Organiser: Department of Architecture University of Bologna - Department of Excellence MIUR - Doctorate in Architecture and Design Cultures and Fossoli Foundation. Scientific responsible: Prof. Patrizia Violi. PHD workshop and seminars leading up to the conference Transient and Transnational Memories, University of Bologna. Venue: Centro Internazionale di Studi Umanistici ‘Umberto Eco’, University of Bologna.
21.06.2019
Invited speaker at the seminar ‘Waliców Project 2019’. Organisers: The Museum of the History of Polish Jews - POLIN, Warsaw - School of AUIC Politecnico di Milano. Title: Presentation of design project by students of Politecnico di Milano based on Preliminary Architectural Guidelines related to preservation and regeneration on Waliców Street memorialistic site. VENUE: Museum of the History of Polish Jews - POLIN, Warsaw.
14.06.2019
Invited speaker by the Museum of the History of Polish Jews - POLIN, Warsaw, at the conference ‘Waliców: DNA of Warsaw - Heritage of Europe - CoHERE - Critical Heritages: performing and representing identities in Europe project’. Title: Waliców Warsaw DNA. Preliminary Architectural Guidelines for the preservation and regeneration of the memorial site of Waliców street. Venue: Museum of the History of Polish Jews - POLIN, Warsaw.
04.03. 2019
Speaker invited by the Rectorate of the Politecnico di Milano to give a lecture for the ‘Holocaust Memorial Day’ 2019. Title: Architectures for Memory. Rhetorical Icons or Signifying Forms?. Presentation: Prof. Federico Bucci, Rector's Delegate for Cultural Policies. Venue: Auditorium of the Milan Polytechnic.
24.01.2019
Invited speaker by the Faculty of Architecture of the Warsaw University of Technology. Conference title: The form is the Content. Recent works of Morpurgo de Curtis Architetti Associati. Venue: Faculty of Architecture of the Warsaw University of Technology.
23.11. 2018
Selected speaker for the international seminar ‘Museum ad Identities. The 2nd international seminar in a cycle ‘Planning an extended museum’. Organisers: Museum of King Jan III's Palace of Wilanów; Ministry of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland; ICOM Austria; ICOM Czech Republic; ICOM Poland; ICOM Slovakia. Title: ‘A Tale of Two Cities. Designing an Extended Museum of the Present with the Former Warsaw Ghetto Fragments: the Waliców Project'. VENUE: Museum of King Jan III's Palace of Wilanów, Warsaw.
22.11.2018
Selected speaker for the 7th ProArch Forum - Learning Architecture. Design workshops and teaching practices - Table 8 ‘Rooting in the territory’. Title of the speech: European Education. Notes for a didactics of the fundamentals of architecture. VENUE: Politecnico di Milano.
17.11.2018
Invited as Honorable Speaker by the School of Museum Leaders - National Museum of History of Ukraine. Conference title: Museographic works by Morpurgo de Curtis Architetti Associati - Museums Temporary Exhibitions. Organisers: BYHMC - Babi Yar Holocaust Museum Center, Kyiv, Ukraine; National Museum of History of Ukraine. VENUE: National Museum of History of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine.
04.11.2018
Invited speaker by ‘Tempo di Libri’ for conference-debate with writer Wlodek Goldkorn. Title: Tra immagine e Memoria. Venue: Tempo di libri, at Fiera Campionaria di Milano.
11.03.2018
Invited speaker by the Management of the PAC Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan, in the context of the ‘Arte in corso’ lecture cycle for the exhibition ‘L'invenzione del territorio. Gregotti and Associates 1953_2017’. Title: ‘L’invenzione del contesto: Architettura, Arte, Territorio’ VENUE: PAC Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan.
08.02.2018
Invited speaker with Arch. Annalisa de Curtis from ‘Casa della Memoria’, Milan. Title: Shoah Memorial in Milan. VENUE: House of Memory, Milan.
12.07.2017
Invited speaker together with Arch. Annalisa de Curtis by the Italian Institute of Culture, Warsaw for the celebrations of the ‘Holocaust Memorial Day’ 2017 (Law no. 211 of 20 July 2000). Title: Il Memoriale della Shoah alla Stazione Centrale di Milano / Memorial Shoah na Dworcu Centralym w Mediolanie. Venue: Italian Institute of Culture in Warsaw.
27.01.2017
Waliców Project. Form and transformation. A Memorial of the present between former Warsaw Ghetto's ruins - with A. de Curtis, A. Vercellotti - Auditorium of the Memorial of the Shoah, Milan (Italy), 2017 | Flyer >
Speaker
Jewish in the City - Presentation of the project of the Holocaust Memorial of Milan - Auditorium of the Memorial of the Shoah, Milan (Italy), 2016 | Flyer >
Speaker
Cloister Talks - W.A.VE. IUAV - International Workshop of Architecture Venice, Morpurgo de Curtis ArchitettiAssociati: Works and projects – Lecture with Archt. Annalisa de Curtis, IUAV, Venice 2015
Backstage – L’architettura come lavoro concreto (Architecture as concrete work) – School of Architecture Urban Planning Construction Engineering - Polytechnic University of Milan, 2015 - Trasformazione degli studi di architettura italiani negli ultimi 20 anni (Transformations of the Italian architectural firms in the last 20 years)
Padiglione Architettura. Milano capitale del Moderno, with A. de Curtis - Padiglione Architettura di EXPO 2015 Belle Arti, Belvedere E. Jannacci, Pirelli Tower, Milan
September 16th 2015
Speaker
Cloister Talks - W.A.VE. IUAV - International Workshop of Architecture Venice, Morpurgo de Curtis ArchitettiAssociati: Works and projects – Lecture with Archt. Annalisa de Curtis, IUAV, Venice 2014
MICANT - Milano nei cantieri dell’arte - Auditorium of Holocaust Memorial, Milan (Italy), 2014
Conference promoted by National Association of Builders and Contractors, Ministry
of Cultural Heritage, Bishopric of Milan, Chamber of Commerce of Milan
Presentation of the Holocaust Memorial of Milan project
DARQ Department of Architecture - Escola Superior Artistica do Porto, Porto (Portugal), 2014
International Conference 20th Century New Towns, Archetypes and Uncertainties Foundations and Fundamentals. Urban centralities for European suburbs and new towns: a comparison of case studies from Chinese postmetropolis to North-African pure desert
Keynote speaker
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore - Inter- faculty Humanities-Economics, Milan (Italy), 2014
Postgraduate Master of Museology, Museum Design and Management of Cultural Heritage – Lecture on Contemporary Museology
Polytechnic University of Milan - PhD course in Conservation of Architectural Heritage - Department of Architecture and Urban Design, Milan (Italy), 2013
Methodology of Historical Research - Judaism, worship spaces and sites of memory - The Holocaust Memorial of Milan: document and project
Speaker
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore - Inter- faculty Humanities-Economics, Milan (Italy), 2012
Postgraduate Course of Museology, Museum Design and Management of Cultural Heritage Presentation of the Holocaust Memorial of Milan project
Speaker
The Italian Cultural Institute, Moscow (Russia), 2011
RKM (Rome Moscow Kiev) Save the Urban Heritage - Workshop no. 4, Architecture between Memory and critical modification - Presentation of the reconversion of the Pirelli-Bicocca area in Milan and the rehabilitation of the British district of Shanghai
Speaker
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore - Inter- faculty Humanities-Economics, Milan (Italy), 2011
Postgraduate Course of Museology, Museum Design and Management of Cultural Heritage - Presentation of the Holocaust Memorial of Milan project
Speaker
Polytechnic University of Milan - Graduate School in Architectural and Landscape Heritage, Milan (Italy), 2011
Presentation of the Holocaust Memorial of Milan project
Speaker
Polytechnic University of Milan - Graduate School in Architectural and Landscape Heritage, Milan (Italy), 2010
Presentation of the Holocaust Memorial of Milan project
Speaker
Academy of Architecture of Mendrisio – Università della Svizzera Italiana, Mendrisio (Switzerland), 2008
Conversion of European dismissed industrial areas
Speaker
ISTAO-Istituto Adriano Olivetti, Ancona (Italy), 2008
Postgraduate Course in Urban Planning
Urban Design in China by Gregotti Associati
Speaker
Domus Academy, Milan (Italy), 2008 Postgraduate Master Course in Urban Management and Architectural Design
Speaker
University of Milano-Bicocca - School of Sociology, Milan (Italy), 2008
Intensive Programme in Urban Development
Speaker
S.P.I. Italian Psychoanalytic Association, Casa del Cinema, Rome (Italy), 2008
My architect, movie about Louis I. Kahn by N. Kahn
Speaker
Museum of Italian Resistance, Deportation, War, Rights and Freedom, Turin (Italy), 2008 Memory 2.0. Museums and memorials from monumentality to virtuality
Speaker
Royal Hall of Central Railway Station, Milan (Italy), 2008
Presentation of the Holocaust Memorial of Milan project
Speaker
I.N.U. National Institute for Urban Design, Genoa (Italy), 2007 - National Conference
The project of the New Urban Centrality of Acilia Madonnetta-Rome
Speaker
I.N.U. National Institute for Urban Design
URBit Italian Urban Design, Venice (Italy), 2007
Urban Promo
The project of the New Urban Centrality of Acilia Madonnetta-Rome
Speaker
University of Milano-Bicocca - School of Sociology, Milan (Italy), 2007
Intensive Programme in Urban Development
Speaker
Polytechnic University of Milan – School of Design, Milan (Italy), 2007
Presentation of the “Convoglio RSHA 30 gennaio 1944 Milano-Auschwitz” exhibition project
Speaker
La Sapienza University – School of Architecture Valle Giulia, Rome (Italy), 2007 Habitat R[h]ome
The project of the New Urban Centrality of Acilia Madonnetta-Rome
Speaker
The Holocaust Memorial, Milan (Italy), International Holocaust Remembrance Day 2007
Presentation of the Holocaust Memorial of Milan project to the president of the Republic of Italy Mr. Giorgio Napolitano
Speaker
Polytechnic University of Milan – School of Architecture, Milan (Italy), 2006
Course of Analysis of urban and architectural morphology and typology
Lecturer
Quirinal Palace – Presidency of the Republic of Italy, Rome, (Italy), 2005
Presentation of the Holocaust Memorial of Milan project
University of Palermo – School of Architecture, Palermo (Italy), 2005 Course of Architectural design
Lecturer
IN.AR.SIND. - Italian Architects and Engineers Association, Genoa (Italy), 2004 National Conference
Speaker
University of Turin Polytechnic – School of Architecture, Turin (Italy), 2004 Presentation of the book “Gregotti Associati 1953-2003”
Speaker
Roma Tre University – School of Architecture, Rome (Italy), 2004
Presentation of the book “Gregotti Associati 1953-2003”
Speaker
I.U.A.V. University – School of Architecture, Venice (Italy), 2004
Presentation of the book “Gregotti Associati 1953-2003”
Speaker
University of Palermo – School of Architecture, Palermo (Italy), 2004
Presentation of the book “Gregotti Associati 1953-2003”
Speaker
Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Villa Madama, Rome (Italy), 2004
China panel discussion
Speaker
Villa Vigoni - German-Italian Centre for European Excellence, Como (Italy), 2002 International design conference - Presentation of the Bicocca Project (Milan) project
Speaker
A.N.I.A.I. - Italian Architects and Engineers Association, Florence (Italy), 2002
National Conference
Speaker