02.04.2007 - Eric Owen Moss. Phobos and the L.A. School lecture at the School of Architecture in Pescara
 Paola Giaconia is invited by Prof. Livio Sacchi to present her monograph on Eric Owen Moss at the School of Architecture in Pescara. Her lecture is titled Eric Owen Moss. Phobos and the L.A. School.



05.12.2006 - Paola Giaconia is in charge of the design for THE TREASURE ISLANDS exhibit
 With her recently founded firm iDU, and in collaboration with Id-lab, Paola Giaconia was in charge of the design for THE TREASURE ISLANDS exhibit, which opened in Florence at the SESV gallery on December 5th 2006 and will then travel to a series of Italian Cultural Centers around the world.


05.05.2006 - The new monograph on Eric Owen Moss by Paola Giaconia has just been released by the publisher Skira
 From the back cover: "Considered one of the leading architects in American experimental architecture, Eric Owen Moss is also one of the most interesting figures in the contemporary international debate.
The boldness of his projects, the way in which they allow for contingencies and leave space for the occurrence of a new, provisional order, and his profound desire to always put himself to the test and to constantly look for possible cultural cross-fertilisations allow Moss to put into practice what he provocatively defines as the Penelope theory of architecture: like Odysseus’s faithful wife, who at night undid the shroud she wove during the day, so is the architect who, when he designs, makes something and dismantles it simultaneously.
It is impossible, by examining his work chronologically, to find an evolutionary logic to it. Even within the so-called L.A. School, Moss is an unusual and atypical character who, since his early works, stands out from the other protagonists of Los Angeles architecture of his own generation, which immediately followed Frank O. Gehry's early works. We can consider the series of constructions he completed in Culver City as one of the most successful experiments in building the contemporary city piece by piece, and surely one of the urban planning attempts which best relates to its original context.
From Culver City, Eric Moss has been able to slowly emerge at the end of the 1990s and to develop a series of projects in other American and European locations. This volume presents his long and intense voyage that has always been deeply rooted in advanced experimentation and unconventional progress."


07.11.2005 - The next edition of the SPOT ON SCHOOLS exhibit, curated by Paola Giaconia, will open December 1st 2005 in Florence, Italy
 The invited schools which will participate in the exhibit are: Architectural Association, UK; Carnegie Mellon University, USA; Clemson University, USA; Columbia University, USA; ETH, Svizzera; Fabrica, Italia; Hosei University, Giappone; Instituto Superior Técnico, Portogallo; Miami University, USA; NABA, Italia; National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan; Pratt Institute, USA; Princeton University, USA; SCI-Arc, USA; UC Berkeley, USA; Università La Sapienza, Italia; University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria.



2.5-7.5.2005 - Partecipation in the international congress "Coast2Coast"
 The city of Ascoli Piceno hosts Coast2Coast, second international congress on the coastal city organized by the Faculty of Architecture, May 2nd-7th. The topics of the discussion will be a comparison between two coastal cities with different historical and orographic characteristics: the city of Durazzo in Albania and the coast South of Fermo in Italy.



06.04.2005 - An Ocean Apart lecture at Calstate University, Florence (Women in Architecture lecture series)
 Paola Giaconia is invited at Calstate University, Florence. Her lecture, An Ocean Apart, is part of the Women in Architecture lecture series organized by the university. The next two guests are Katia Accossato (April 11th) and Elena Carlini (April 13th).



24-28.02.2005 - Screening of video "Private Goes Public" at the Thailand New Media Arts Festival of Bangkok (MAF05)
 The video "Private Goes Public" will be screened during the Thailand New Media Arts Festival of Bangkok (February 26th and 27th, 2005).


 

23.02.2005 - Screening of video "Private Goes Public" at the Interfacce Festival in Rome
 The video "Private Goes Public" will be screened during the Interfacce Festival at the University of Tor Vergata in Rome (February 23rd, 2005).


 

07.10.2004 - Special mention in the competition for the Urban Center in Florence, Italy
 The project URBAN CENTER FIRENZE 1.0 [PORTA NOVOLI] presented by Marco Brizzi, Paolo Danelli, Paola Giaconia, Jacopo Marello and Elena Sacco received a special mention from the jury of the competition for the Urban Center in Florence.



  

05.10.2004 - "Davvero una piazza" conference in Lastra a Signa, Italy
 Paola Giaconia participated in the "Davvero una piazza" conference held at the Spedale di Sant'Antonio in Lastra a Signa on Tuesday October 5th. Among the invited speakers were Carlo Nannetti (Mayor of Lastra a Signa), Mariella Zoppi (County Councillor for the Arts), Lanfranco Binni (TRA-ART), Marco Brizzi (iMage) who spoke about the current projects for the historical center of Lastra a Signa.


 

28.7.2004 - Publication of the catalogue INTIMACY edited by Marco Brizzi and Paola Giaconia
 The official catalogue of BEYOND MEDIA, 7th international festival of architecture in video, edited by Marco Brizzi and Paola Giaconia, has been released by Mandragora. "Few concessions were made to the seductive fascination of digital tools, there was plenty of understatement and extensive consideration of the current and often compromise conditions to be found in the designed environment" writes Marco Brizzi in presenting the publication.


  

2.5-8.5.2004 - Partecipation in the international congress "Coast2Coast"
 The city of Ascoli Piceno hosts Coast2Coast, international congress on the coastal city organized by the Faculty of Architecture, May 2nd-8th. The topics of the discussion will be the coastal city and its development. Two specific cases will be studied: the California coast, with its uniform grid of streets, and the linear city of the Adriatic coast. The congress -whose scientific committee comprises Umberto Cao, Pippo Ciorra, Paola Giaconia and Cristiano Toraldo di Francia- includes a round table, a series of lectures and an international design workshop on the coastal city that will see the participation of 30 students from California State University and 30 students from the Faculty of architecture of Ascoli Piceno. Three design issues will be developed in the workshop: the line conurbation along the coast, the marine infrastructure and the park of the mouth of the Tronto river. Among the invited participants are Aldo Aymonino, Stefano Boeri, Marco Brizzi, Ivo Covic, Richard Ingersoll, Luca Molinari, Daniele Lombardi, Elena Njiric, Jonathan Reich, Mosè Ricci, Mirko Zardini, Michele Saee.


 

26.04.2004 - First prize in the competition for the new bike path and bridge between Gavarno and Nembro, Italy
 The project presented by Paolo Danelli, Paola Giaconia, Elena Sacco with Alessandro Rocca was awarded first prize in the competition for the new bike path and bridge between Gavarno and Nembro.


  

02.10.2003 - Opening of the SPOT ON SCHOOLS exhibit at the Stazione Leopolda in Florence, Italy
 The SPOT ON SCHOOLS exhibit, curated by Paola Giaconia, opens today at the Stazione Leopolda in Florence, Italy. The exhibit, which will be open until October 12th, offers a first international survey of the most advanced academic researches. The works and researches presented by the 19 invited schools testify how greatly, despite the differences, the new digital tools have modified the discipline of architecture and, as explorative design aides for the creative process, shifted design expressions and ways of designing. They explore inventive design strategies, facilitated by new technologies, and investigate the ways digital media have informed the conception and production of architecture. Besides displaying the most radical graphic presentations which stem from researches in the field of visual communication, the exhibit will include the results of new design methodologies that rely upon state-of-the-art softwares which -being employed in the creative process, and not merely as a drawing and representation tool- call forth a radical transformation of the traditional syntactical and grammatical standards of architecture. The invited schools which will participate in the exhibit are: The Bartlett, Faculty of the Built Environment, UCL, London, UK; Clemson University, School of Architecture, South Carolina, USA ; Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, New York, USA; Ecole Spéciale d'Architecture (ESA), Paris, France ; Escola Tècnica i Superior d'Arquitectura La Salle, Universitat Ramon Llull, Barcelona, Spain; Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; Interaction Design Institute, Ivrea, Italy; Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln (KHM), Department of Hybrid Space, Cologne, Germany; National Chiao Tung University, College of Architecture, Hsinchu, Taiwan; RMIT University, SIAL (Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory), School of Architecture + Design, Melbourne, Australia; SCI-Arc, Southern California Institute of Architecture, Los Angeles, California, USA; Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Architecture, Hyperbody Research Group (HRG), The Netherlands; UC Berkeley, Department of Architecture, College of Environmental Design, California, USA; UCLA, Department of Architecture and Urban Design, Los Angeles, California, USA; UCLA, Department of Design | Media Arts, Los Angeles, California, USA; UC San Diego, CRCA, Center for Research in Computing and the Arts, San Diego California, USA; Università di Camerino, Facoltà di Architettura di Ascoli Piceno, EIDOLAB, Laboratorio di Eidomatica, Italy; Università La Sapienza, Prima Facoltà di Architettura Ludovico Quaroni, Roma, Italy; University of Auckland, School of Architecture, New Zealand.


 

02.10.2003 - Participation in the DEEP INSIDE exhibit at the Stazione Leopolda in Florence, Italy
 The pavilion MOLTISOLITUDINE, designed by DAP studio (Elena Sacco, Paolo Danelli) and a.polis (Paola Giaconia, Gregory Taousson), participated in the DEEP INSIDE exhibit, held at the Stazione Leopolda in Florence, Italy and devoted to the theme INTIMACY. The exhibit will be open until October 12th.