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Award | The Memorial of the Shoah of Milan by Morpurgo de Curtis Architetti Associati is the winner of the IN/ARCHITETTURA 2020 National Prize.

The prize is issued for the "GRANDI OPERE" category  new construction projects worth more than 5,000,000 €.

December 18th 2020

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Conference | Annalisa de Curtis "La memoria e l'origine della forma" - PhD School - Politecnico di Bari

The lecture is introduced by Vittorio Ardito and with Nicola Panzini, Vito Quadrato and Nicoletta Faccitondo as discussants

January 15th 2021

Poster >

 

Academia | Guido Morpurgo has been appointed Associate Professor in Interior Architecture by IUAV University of Venice

December 23rd 2020

 

Conference | Guido Morpurgo "Il riserbo critico e le profane differenze" online conference dedicated to the figure of Vittorio Gregotti, with Carlo Magnani (IUAV) and Chiara Baglione (PoliMi)

The event is organized by the Chamber of Architects of Padua Province

Online - www.pd.archiworld.it

October 22nd 2020 | h. 17:30 - 19:30

Poster >

 

Conference | Guido Morpurgo and Annalisa de Curtis will partecipate in the discussion 'Plans for Waliców St. The Memory of a Place in the Contemporary City'

The event is organized by the POLIN Museum, the City of Warsaw (Economic Development Department) and the Association of Polish Architects (Warsaw Branch).

Zodiac Pavilion Warsaw - Online

October 17th 2020 | h. 18:00

Poster > Debate (EN) >

 

Conference | Guido Morpurgo "Vittorio Gregotti. Le scritture del progetto" in the context of the seminar "Il possibile necessario. Incontro di studio in ricordo di Vittorio Gregotti", curated by Vincenzo Melluso

The event is organized University of Palermo / Department of Architecture

Online - Microsoft Teams

May 25th 2020 | h. 15:30

Flyer >

 

Interview | Guido Morpurgo interviewed by Katarzyna Jagodzinska on the polish magazine "architektura & biznes", n. 5-20, pp. 142-143

May 2020

Link (general website) >

 

The Memorial of the Shoah of Milan has been published as "Work of Excellence" on the MIBACT website "Architetture del secondo 900"

The file is accessible trough the page research link, searching for the work and/or specific region.

March 31th 2020

Link (MIBACT) >

 

Conference | Guido Morpurgo - Morpurgo de Curtis ArchitettiAssociati will present the project of the Memorial of the Shoah of Milan.

The event is organized by ESAD/ Mestrado Design de Interiores and Istituto Italiano di Cultura Porto.

AUDITÓRIO ESAD - Porto (PT)

January 29th 2020 | h. 17:30

Flyer > | Link >

 

  • Conference | Annalisa de Curtis will discuss in the final debate of the cycle "Milano: Nuove Architetture a confronto" curated by Emilio Battisti

    December 10th 2019

    One Works Creative Hub, via Sciesa 3, Milan | h. 21:00

     

Conference | Milano. Italia : Ritratto di una città in evoluzione

On the occasion of the publication of a special issue of the Domus magazine dedicated to the city of Milan, the presentation of the volume will be held at the Memorial of the Shoah of Milan, one of the projects selected for publication.

The curators Fulvio Irace and Walter Mariotti will discuss  with Ferruccio de Bortoli, Roberto Jarach, Antonella Ranaldi.

Memorial of the Shoah of Milan, Piazza E.J. Safra 1

December 11th 2019 | h. 18:30

Free admission subject to availability

Flyer > | Link (domusweb) >

 

Conference | Il binario nero dell'indifferenza. IL MEMORIALE DELLA SHOAH DI MILANO, dall'invisibile al visibile.

Annalisa de Curtis and Guido Morpurgo will discuss with Jacques Gubler; introduction by Gioconda Cafiero, in the context of the IV edition of the cycle "I musei della Memoria. Architetture che raccontano"

Fondazione De Felice Teatro di Palazzo Donn’Anna

Largo Donn’Anna, 9 - Naples

January 27th 2020 | h. 17:30

Flyer > Link (ilmondodisuk) >  |  Link (speakerscorner) >

Link (napolitoday) > Link (scrivonapoli) >

 

Interview by Guido Morpurgo on ZAZA' (Rai Radio 3) >

26.01.2020

 

Conference | GIORNATA DELLA MEMORIA. Il progetto del Memoriale della Shoah di Milano, lecture by Guido Morpurgo - Morpurgo de Curtis ArchitettiAssociati, moderated by João Rocha Director of the Department of Architecture of the University of Évora

Patrocinated by Ambasciata d'Italia Lisbona, Istituto Italiano di Cultura Lisbona

Biblioteca da IMPRENSA NACIONAL CASA DA MOEDA

Rua da Escola Politécnica, 135, Lisbon (PT)

January 28th 2020 | h. 18:30

Flyer > Link >

 

Event | IL MUSEO IN TEMPO REALE. Annalisa de Curtis will dialogue with Wlodek Goldkorn, Anna Imponente, Antonio Lampis, Silvio Perrella. Introduction by Paolo Mascilli Migliorini, theatrical lecture by Marialice Tagliavini.

Caffè Letterario di Palazzo Reale, Piazza del Plebiscito 1

Naples

January 28th 2020 | h. 18:00

Flyer >

 

  • President of the Italian Senate Maria Elisabetta Casellati visited the Memorial of the Shoah of Milan accompanied by the Architect Guido Morpurgo, the Life Senator Liliana Segre, the President of the Shoah Memorial Roberto Jarach, the Vice-President Milena Santerini, the Prefect Renato Saccone, the Chief Rabbi of the Jewish community of Milan Rav  Alfonso Arbib

    December 10th 2019

     

The Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte visited the Memorial of the Shoah of Milan accompanied by the Life Senator Liliana Segre, the Milan Prefect Renato Saccone and the President of the Memorial Foundation Roberto Jarach, together with Annalisa de Curtis who illustrated the project, highlighting the architectural prerogatives and museographic choices.

November 21st 2019

Link (Repubblica) >  | Link (Rainews) >

 

Conference | Annalisa de Curtis (Morpurgo de Curtis ArchitettiAssociati) will discuss about the Memorial of the Shoah of Milan in the context of the "Milan: New Architectures in Comparison" series of meetings curated by Emilio Battisti

November 26th 2019

One Works Creative Hub, via Sciesa 3, Milan | h. 21:00

Flyer >

 

Conference | Guido Morpurgo (Morpurgo de Curtis Architetti Associati), 'Il Memoriale della Shoah di Milano: forma, struttura, architettura'

Seminary 'Museums, Architecture and the city: public spaces and spaces of memory' • PhD Workshops and seminars towards the conference 'TRANSIENT AND TRANSNATIONAL MEMORIES'

Dipartimento di Architettura Università di Bologna, Dottorato in Architettura e Culture del Progetto, Fondazione Fossoli

DAMSlab, piazzetta Pier Paolo Pasolini 5b, Bologna

June 21st 2019 | h. 10.00  |  Program >

 

Conference | Annalisa de Curtis (Morpurgo de Curtis Architetti Associati) invited to MEMI Fest "Attiviamo la memoria"

Casa della Memoria, via F. Confalonieri 14, Milan

September 12th 2019 | h. 19.00  |  Link >  |  Facebook >

Flyer >

 

Conference | "IL MUSEO IN TEMPO REALE / La scoperta del museo"

Annalisa de Curtis and Andrea Vercellotti dialogue with Wlodek Goldkorn, Federico Squarcini and Vincenzo Trione.

Interventions: Paolo Biscottini, Alberto Garlandini, Stefano Raimondi

Performace by Maria Alice Tagliavini

Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, Viale Pasubio 5, Milan

October 9th 2019 | from h. 18:30

Free entry with registration

Website > | Flyer > | Bookings >

 

Conference | Jacques Gubler will be presenting the Memorial of the Shoah of Milan, project by Morpurgo de Curtis ArchitettiAssociati, in the lecture 'Architettura dell'indelebile. Due memoriali della Shoah a Milano & Drancy'.

PhD Seminar - Dipartimento di Ricerca e Dottorato di Ricerca in Architettura, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II

Aula Rabitti, DiARC, via Toledo 402, Naples

June 21st 2019 | h. 10.00 | Poster >

 

Exhibition | "IL MUSEO IN TEMPO REALE" curated by Annalisa de Curtis and Andrea Vercellotti, also with Paolo Biscottini and Alberto Garlandini will take place on two days at the Memorial of the Shoah of Milan

Memorial of the Shoah of Milan, Piazza E.J. Safra 1

March 23-24th 2019 | from h. 14:00

Website > | Event > | Bookings >

 

Conference | Annalisa de Curtis • Presentation of the publication 'Donne di Design e di Architettura' - ebook in attachment to the newspaper Sole 24 Ore (digital) of the next 10th of April

Auditorium Mudec, Milan

April 10th 2019 | from h. 17:30  |  Photo (1) >  |  Photo (2) >

 

Seminary | Annalisa de Curtis "Dispositivi architettonici e configurazioni narrative", field trip to Memoriale della Shoah di Milano organized by the Chamber of Architects of Lodi (4 CFU riconosciuti)

Memorial of the Shoah of Milano, Piazza E.J. Safra 1

February 18th 2019 | h. 17:30 - 19:00

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Conference | Guido Morpurgo with Vittorio Gregotti and Salvatore Veca will discuss about the book "Architettura e progetto. Gli scritti di Vittorio Gregotti per il Corriere della Sera" curated by Franco Rella. The conference will be coordinated by Pierluigi Panza

Fondazione Corriere della Sera

Sala Buzzati, via Balzan 3 - Milan

March 6th 2019 | h. 18:00  |  Flyer >

 

Conference | Guido Morpurgo will discuss about the project "Waliców: DNA of Warsaw – Europe’s heritage" with the participation of Christopher Whitehead, Jacek Leociak, Tom Schofield, Beata Chomątowska, Kamil Miklaszewski, Paweł Nowakowski, Artur Celiński (host)

Polin Museum, Warsaw - PL

March 4th 2019  |  Link >

 

Annalisa de Curtis published the article "Singolarità. Parte del mondo" in IQD Interior Qualitry Design n.53

Verbus Editrice, 2018

 

  • Conference | Annalisa de Curtis with poets Corrado Benigni and Tiziano Rossi will discuss about the City and the way to represent it in the format "Sguardi e visioni. La città tra immagini e parole" in the context of "PAROLE-URBANE 2019", curated by Stefano Raimondi

    c/o Casa Fornasetti, via Bazzini 14, Milan

    January 23rd 2019 | h. 19:00

    To participate booking is compulsory by sending a mail at cultura@fornasetti.com >

     

Memorial of the Shoah of Milan has been published in "ILLAPA. Mana tukukuq" in an article by Tommaso Cigarini

pp. 78-89, Instituto de Investigaciones Museológicas y Artísticas de la Universidad Ricardo Palma, Lima (Perù) December 2018

 

Annalisa de Curtis published the article " Culto e Memoria • forme del sacro nella storia del presente"      in “Le sfide dell’architettura 10”

RCS MediaGroup Spa, 2018

 

Canaletto Apartment has been published in 'ReReadings 2' edited by Graeme Brooker and Sally Stone

p. 180, RIBA Publishing, London 2018

 

Community: Italy published in DOMES 02/2018 'Architecture Exhibitions'

pp. 88-97, Prodromos Papadopoulos, 2018

 

  • The exhibition “…What’s in a name?” about the census of the jews in Milan in 1938 will open on october 23rd 2018 with an installation by Morpurgo de Curtis Architetti Associati at La Triennale di Milano

    The exhibition is curated by Laura Brazzo, Emanuele Edallo and Daniela Scala

    La Triennale di Milano • Atrium

    Inauguration • October 23nd 2018, h. 18:30

    Exhibition • October 23rd - November 18th 2018

    Flyer >  | Link (La Triennale di Milano) > | Link (AUIC) >

     

Conference | The content is the container. Museographic works by Morpurgo de Curtis ArchitettiAssociati

Guido Morpurgo invited as honorable speaker at the convention "School of Museum Leaders" panel: “Modern trends of museums design, zoning of museums spaces, registrations of expositions"

National Museum of History of Ukraine e Babi Yar Holocaust Memorial Center, Kyiv (Ukraine)

November 1st - 4th 2018

Link (babiyar.org) >  | Link (HM-1) > |  Link (HM-2) >

 

Inauguration of the exhibition "O Território da Arquitetura. Gregotti e Associati 1953-2017", curated by Guido Morpurgo at Garagem Sul (CCB - Lisbon)

Garagem Sul | Exposições de arquitetura

Centro Cultural de Belém (Lisbon)

Inauguration • November 13th 2018

Exhibition • November 13th 2018 - January 29th 2019

Link (CCB) >

 

Annalisa de Curtis and Guido Morpurgo will partecipate at the "Pro-Arch" Forum "LEARNING ARCHITECTURE. Design laboratories and teaching practices"

Milan, November 16th-17th 2018

Link >

 

Conference | Guido Morpurgo "A Tale of Two Cities. Designing an Extended Museum of the Present with the Former Warsaw Ghetto Fragments: the Waliców Project" in the context of the international forum "Museums and Identities. Planning an extended museum"

Museum of King Jan III’s Palace at Wilanów, Warsaw (PL)

November 21st-23rd 2018

Programme and flyer >

 

  • Conference | The Museum today: container or content?

    Dario Porta, Annalisa de Curtis, Annalisa Zanni, Mario Cucinella and Paolo Biscottini will discuss about the role of the contemporary museum in the context of Casa degli Umiliati - Musei Civici di Monza

    Casa degli Umiliati, via Teodolinda 4, Monza

    October 20th 2018, h. 9:30

    Flyer >

     

  • Conference | Guido Morpurgo "The form is the content. Recent projects by Morpurgo de Curtis ArchitettiAssociati Milan"

    Faculty of Architecture, Politechnika Warszawska (PL)

    October 23rd 2018, h. 14:15 / Sala 101

    Flyer >

     

Memorial of the Shoah of Milan has been published in "Le sfide dell'architettura. Chiese e luoghi di culto e della memoria" in an article by A. Coppa

pp. 33-37, vol. 10, RCS MediaGroup Spa, Milano 2018

June 23rd 2018

 

Tra immagine e memoria

with Wlodek Goldkorn and Guido Morpurgo

Wlodek Goldkorn, writer and author of numerous essays on Judaism and Central-Eastern Europe,

meets Guido Morpurgo, author of the Memorial of the Shoah in Milan Central Station.

An intense dialogue on memory and the plots that weaves together linking history and images.

Fiera Milano City, Sala Amber 2

March 11th 2018, h. 15.30  | Link > | Program >

 

Lecture | Guido Morpurgo "L’invenzione del contesto: Architettura, Arte, Territorio"  |   Link >

PAC Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, via Palestro 14, Milan

February 8th 2018

 

Inauguration of the Exhibition 'Il territorio dell'architettura. Gregotti e Associati 1953_2017'

curated by Guido Morpurgo

PAC Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, via Palestro 14, Milano

inauguration • December 19th 2017

exhibition • December 20th - February 11th 2018

 

  • Waliców Project • The intermediate seminar and exhibition of the workshop will take place in Warsaw at Polin Museum and at the Faculty of Architecture, Warsaw University of Technology from 6th to 8th december

    Flyer  > |  walicowproject.polimi.it  >

    Polin Museum, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw

    December 6-8th 2017

     

The Memorial of the Shoah of Milan has been published on 'Architettura del Moderno', research and website proposed by La Triennale di Milano in cooperation with Regione Lombardia | Link >

October 12th 2017

 

Annalisa de Curtis and Guido Morpurgo quoted by 'Gazeta Wyborcza' about the workshop Waliców Project, article by Tomasz Urzykowski | Link  >

September 4th 2017

 

Conference | Annalisa de Curtis about the program "C'era ancora una volta. Attraverso una fiaba, il Museo come Laboratorio del Presente" | Link  >

Memorial of the Shoah of Milan, Milan, Italy

June 15th 2017

 

Conference | Annalisa de Curtis with Paola Tognon at the event "Archihour. Aperitivi di Architettura - Racconti dal sottosuolo" | Flyer  >

Ex Diurno / Piazza Dante, Bergamo, Italy

June 8th 2017

 

  • Annalisa de Curtis invited as Professor at the seminar 'Grottaminarda. Una nuova centralità per il Borgo della Fratta' 

    Castello d'Aquino, Grottaminarda (AV), Italy

    May 8th-14th 2017

     

  • Conference by Annalisa de Curtis "Strumenti per orientare lo sguardo" with Federica Visconti, Paola Galante, Lilia Pagano, Adelina Picone, Raffaele Nappo

    Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Naples

    May 10th 2017

     

Morpurgo de Curtis Architetti Associati has been appointed for the design of the new Offices of non profit social-utility organization “Foundation CDEC-Jewish Contemporary Documentation Center”

March 17th 2017

 

Guido Morpurgo published the essay 'Una questione di identità. Rapporto sulla trasformazione degli studi di architettura italiani negli ultimi vent'anni', in 'Backstage. L'architettura come lavoro concreto' by Florencia Andreola, Mauro Sullam, Riccardo M. Villa (ed.), introduction by Marco Biraghi,  FrancoAngeli, Milano 2017, pp. 29-39

 

  • Lecture of Guido Morpurgo, Annalisa de Curtis 

    Memorial Shoah na Stacji Centralnej w Mediolanie, Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Varsavia, Warsaw

    January 27th 2017

    Link  >  |  Flyer  >

     

  • Lecture of Annalisa de Curtis 

    Formazione e Memoria. Il progetto del Memoriale della Shoah come laboratorio del presente

    Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Reggio Calabria

    January 24th 2017

    Flyer 1  >  |  Flyer 2  >

     

  • Final exhibition of the International Design Workshop 

    Walicow Project: a Memorial of the Present between former Warsaw Ghetto's Ruins

    Memorial of the Shoah of Milan, January 31st 2017

    Link  >  |  Link (events.polimi)  >

     

  • Partecipation to the exhibition Re-Cycle Italy, UDR Milano with the theme Difference against Indifference 

    Politecnico di Milano, DAStU Dipartimento di Architettura e Studi Urbani, Milan

    February 20th 2015

    Poster  >

     

The Memorial of the Shoah of Milan is protected by the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage

January 20th 2017

 

Participation in the exhibition Sketch for Syria

Università IUAV di Venezia, January 17th 2017

Link  >  |  Flyer  >

 

Memorial of the Shoah of Milan published in 'Adaptation. Strategies for interior architecture and design' by Graeme Brooker - Bloomsbury, London 2017, pp. 5; 138; 141-147

 

Seminar of the International Design Workshop

Walicow Project Faculty of Architecture of Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw

December 6-9th 2016

Link  >

 

Completion of the Housing complex Abitare Pioltello

First phase (107 apartments), Pioltello (Milan)

November 2016

 

Consul General Ambassador Reeker visit the Memorial of the Shoah of Milan

September 8th 2016

Link  >

 

Apartment in Città Studi published in 'Rooms. Novel living concepts' by Beppe Finessi, XXI Triennale International Exhibition - Salone del Mobile Milano, Marsilio, Venezia 2016 p. 267

 

Article by Vittorio Gregotti about the book 'FigurazioneAlla ricerca della forma. In dialogo con Umberto Riva'

Corriere della Sera, June 15th 2016

Text  >

 

Morpurgo de Curtis Winners of the Gold Medal for Italian Architecture • Special Mention for Interiors to the Memorial of the Shoah of Milan

Triennale di Milano, Milan

December 12th 2015-February 7th 2016

Link  >

 

Fitting out of the exhibition Community: Italy. Architecture, city and landscape from the postwar period to 2000

Curve of the Triennale di Milano, Milan

November 28th 2015-March 6th 2016

Link  >

 

Participation in the International architecture workshop W.A.VE. 15

Università IUAV di Venezia, Venice

June 29th-July 17th 2015

Link  >

 

Fitting out of the exhibition Chagall and the Bible

The Diocesan Museum of Milan, Milan

September 17th 2014-February 1st 2015

Link  >

Article (Il sole 24 ore, italian newspaper)  >

 

  • Invited to partecipate in the series of lectures and exhibition Padiglione Architettura. Milano capitale del Moderno 

    Padiglione Architettura di EXPO 2015 Belle Arti, Belvedere E. Jannacci, Pirelli Tower, Milan

    September 16th 2015

    Flyer  >

     

Fitting out of the exhibition Aldo Carpi. Arte, vita e Resistenza

in collaboration with the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Memorial of the Shoah of Milan, April 29th-May 29th 2015

Link >

 

  • Conference by Annalisa de Curtis, Guido Morpurgo 

    Memorial of the Shoah of Milan, MICANT

    Introduction by Ferruccio de Bortoli, Alberto Artioli, Marco Biraghi, also with Roberto Jarach, Valerio Arienti, Giuliano Percassi

    Memorial of the Shoah, Milan

    May 29th 2014 | Flyer  >

     

Invited to participate in the exhibition Un Bâtiment combien des vies? La transformation comme acte de création

with the project of the Memorial of the Shoah of Milan, Citè de l’Architecture & du Patrimoine, Paris

December 17th 2014-September 28th 2015

Link  >

 

Invited to participate in the exhibition Marghera futura 2.0. Idee e progetti per Porto Marghera

Polymnia Venezia Museo M9, Mestre (Venice)

December 11-13th 2014

Link  >

 

Invited to participate in the Consultation Atelier Castello

Triennale di Milano, Milan, July-November 2014

 

Morpurgo de Curtis Winners of the International architecture workshop W.A.VE.

Università IUAV di Venezia, Venice

June 30th-July 19th 2014

Link  >

 

Invited to participate in the exhibition Les nouveaux musées-mémoriaux de la Shoah en France

with the project of the Memorial of the Shoah of Milan, Mémorial de la Shoah, Paris, 2012