Erasmus Effect

Models

Italy as a territory is losing its function as an international cultural center,
it is not nationalizing for itself, but its intellectuals continue the cosmopolitan function,
separiting themselves from the territory and swarming abroad.
Antonio Gramsci

Pietro Belluschi • Lina Bo Bardi • Paolo Soleri • Vittorio Garatti • Elisabetta Terragni, The Panorama of the Cold War Team • Marpillero Pollak Architects • Atelier Manferdini • Carlo Ratti Associati • Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers • Studio Fuksas • Durisch + Nolli Architetti • EMBT | Enric Miralles – Benedetta Tagliabue • Simone Solinas, ssa | solinas serra architects • CORREIA / RAGAZZI Arquitectos • Djuric-Tardio Architectes • Barozzi / Veiga • AWP, Alessandra Cianchetta • Romaldo Giurgola • Paritzki Liani Architects

AWP office for territorial reconfiguration, The Lantern. Sandnes, Norvegia, 2006-2008. Image credit: Thomas Liu
Durisch + Nolli, Centro di formazione professionale SSIC. Gordola, Svizzera, 2004-2010. Image credit: David Willen
Renzo Piano – Piano+Rogers, Centre Georges Pompidou. Parigi, Francia, 1971-1977

Schools

“What is an architect?
I think we have to answer that before anything else. Each one of us is different.
When we are working as architects, we are each in a different environment,
in a different society, in different places, and so forth; and because of that,
I don’t believe in emphasizing a technical training for an architect.
I believe much more, in a moral training.
Enrico Peressutti, Princeton, 1953

Enrico Peressutti, Princeton University • Ernesto Nathan Rogers, AA, London • Aldo Rossi, IAUS NY • Mario G. Salvadori, Columbia University

Stories

Una revolución de formas
es una revolución de esenciales
José Martí

Atelier D • B+C Architectes • Cannatà & Fernandes • CRISTÓBAL + MONACO arquitectos • DOSarchitects • Exposure Architects • External Reference Architects • Fil Rouge Architecture • fondaRIUS architecture • Fusina6 • GA Architecture • Kokaistudios • Leap • LOOP Landscape & Architecture Design • MAB Marotta Basile Arquitectura • mOa Mario Occhiuto Architetture • NABITO • nbAA Nadir Bonaccorso Arquitectos Associados • Paratelier • PiSaA • STUDIO RAMOPRIMO • Ternullomelo Architects • XCOOP

B+C Architectes, Multi-purpose Hall. Lisieux, Francia, 2011. Image credit: Michel Denancé

ExposureArchitects, Octospider Workers’ canteen. Patchburi, Thailandia, 2004

Video

– What do you want from us, we who come from the Old World?
– We need to know whether you’re good enough to enter the New World.
– And so you are God Almighty who decides whether we’re good enough
to enter your land of the other world?
Dialogue in Emanuele Crialese’s movie Golden Door (Nuovo Mondo), 2006

The video interview project recounts the stories, choices and motivations for the exiled Italian architects, as well as their desire to return and a country ready to embrace them.

Architecture and Vision • Delugan Meissl Associated Architects • KUEHN MALVEZZI • MORQ* • 3GATTI • LAN Architecture • gravalosdimonte arquitectos • ecoLogicStudio

3GATTI, Drive-In. Automobile Museum. Nanchino, Cina, 2009

Architecture and Vision, Warka Water. Etiopia, 2012

MORQ*, Karri Loop House. Margaret River, Australia, 2007-2013

Talk in Radio

When you visit Erasmus Effect,
when you hear the stories of these young architects and professionals who have emigrated,
you’ll soon realize just how much talent Italy has been able to waste.
What we could have become. And what we are instead.
Sergio Nava

In this area of the exhibition, thanks to the contribution of the Sergio Nava’s programme Giovani Talenti(Radio24), we can hear from a broader range of migrants: along with the architects are researchers, scientists and technicians who emigrate in search of opportunities and better working conditions.

Andrea Barizza, Germania • Alice Cofanelli, UK • Luca Di Cesare, Cina • Lorenzo Di Pietro, Spagna • Giulia Ferrero, Olanda • Marina Freri, Australia • Georgina Lalli, USA • Clara Lopez, UK • Giovanni Masini, Polonia • Umberto Morelli, Brasile • Benedetta Piantella, USA • Alberto Sanseverino, Cina • Lorenzo Thione, USA • Neri Tollardo, Russia • Giuseppe Vestrucci, Australia • Luca Vigliero, Dubai, UAE

Exhibition Design

The work of the Lot-Ekstudio is composed almost exclusively of fragments of transport containers. The exhibition structure only emphasises the sense of “movement” underlying the show, reminding us that all ideas and talents being spent abroad are an active part of a national scientific and creative community that is just waiting to be able to make its contribution.