The Istituto Italiano di Cultura will host an exhibition by 4th-year architectural design students of the Department of Architectural Science at Toronto Metropolitan University who worked a few weeks in Bari, Italy, in collaboration with Bari Politecnico, Faculty of Architecture. Their final designs and projects looked at the intersection of housing, migration, and community. Under the guidance of Dr. Umberto Berardi and Dr. June Komisar, the students designed components of an affordable neighbourhood for recent immigrants and refugees to Apulia, choosing as their sites the historic but underpopulated 20th-century towns of Cervaro, Mezzanone, and Segezia. Central to their work is the considerations of affordable housing, a sense of community, education and training facilities, places to worship and gather as well as a considered response to the existing Rationalist architecture of the 1930s that characterizes all three towns.
Puglia: Migration and Housing Studio
ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI CULTURA
496 Huron St | Toronto ON
OPENING
Monday, September 18 | 6:30PM
FREE ADMISSION | OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
EXHIBITION
September 19 to September 29, 2023
Monday to Friday | 9AM to 5PM
Closed from 1PM to 2PM daily
FREE ADMISSION | OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Presented by the Istituto Italiano di Cultura Toronto, the Department of Architectural Science at Toronto Metropolitan University and the Politecnico di Bari.
