Thu
10
Apr
Seminars and Conferences
Lecture 4: Giovanni Vaccarini | Thinking with your hands
The A+ Lectures 2025 – Critical Unboxing. Projects and Processes offer a multidisciplinary perspective on architecture, exploring its processes, ideas, and narratives through the contributions of international experts.
This initiative, coordinated by Professor Cristina Coscia, is promoted by the College of Architecture and Design and the Department of Architecture and Design (DAD). Originally conceived within the Master’s Degree Program in Architecture Construction City (ACC), it has now expanded to include all Master’s Degree Programs within the Department. It is open to all Master’s students as well as final-year students of the Bachelor’s Degree Programs at the College of Architecture and Design.
Five years after their debut in 2020, the ACC Master Lectures have evolved into A+ Lectures, a transformation that reflects the program’s growth and its ambition to broaden its scope. The 2025 edition of A+ Lectures revolves around the concept of Critical Unboxing, reinterpreting the idea of "unpacking" not just as an act applied to objects but to architecture itself. In design and architecture, a box can be a container, a text, or a built form. However, a critical unboxing is not merely about revealing a final product; it is an act of unveiling that brings to light the processes, logics, and meanings that often remain hidden. This edition proposes a fresh approach to architectural narration, transforming each lecture into an opportunity to investigate and decipher what usually remains invisible.
The fourth event of A+ Lectures 2025 will feature Giovanni Vaccarini, introduced by Professor Marco Trisciuoglio, with a lecture titled: Thinking with your hands.
The event is scheduled for April 10 2025, from 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm in Room 201 at the Lingotto campus of the Politecnico di Torino.
Giovanni Vaccarini is an architect who graduated cum laude from the University of Chieti-Pescara 'Gabriele D'Annunzio.' He completed postgraduate studies in landscape architecture at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture in Ontario, Canada, and he holds a PhD in architectural composition from the 13th cycle. Vaccarini served as an adjunct professor in Architectural Composition IV at the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Studies 'Gabriele D'Annunzio.' His projects and contributions have received various awards and are featured in leading publications. In December 2024, a critical monograph on his work, written by Manuel Orazi, was published by Lettera Ventidue as part of the 'Imprinting' series.
Lecture recordings will be available on the APlus YouTube channel.
For more information and updates on A+ Lectures, visit the official page.
This initiative, coordinated by Professor Cristina Coscia, is promoted by the College of Architecture and Design and the Department of Architecture and Design (DAD). Originally conceived within the Master’s Degree Program in Architecture Construction City (ACC), it has now expanded to include all Master’s Degree Programs within the Department. It is open to all Master’s students as well as final-year students of the Bachelor’s Degree Programs at the College of Architecture and Design.
Five years after their debut in 2020, the ACC Master Lectures have evolved into A+ Lectures, a transformation that reflects the program’s growth and its ambition to broaden its scope. The 2025 edition of A+ Lectures revolves around the concept of Critical Unboxing, reinterpreting the idea of "unpacking" not just as an act applied to objects but to architecture itself. In design and architecture, a box can be a container, a text, or a built form. However, a critical unboxing is not merely about revealing a final product; it is an act of unveiling that brings to light the processes, logics, and meanings that often remain hidden. This edition proposes a fresh approach to architectural narration, transforming each lecture into an opportunity to investigate and decipher what usually remains invisible.
The fourth event of A+ Lectures 2025 will feature Giovanni Vaccarini, introduced by Professor Marco Trisciuoglio, with a lecture titled: Thinking with your hands.
The event is scheduled for April 10 2025, from 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm in Room 201 at the Lingotto campus of the Politecnico di Torino.
Giovanni Vaccarini is an architect who graduated cum laude from the University of Chieti-Pescara 'Gabriele D'Annunzio.' He completed postgraduate studies in landscape architecture at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture in Ontario, Canada, and he holds a PhD in architectural composition from the 13th cycle. Vaccarini served as an adjunct professor in Architectural Composition IV at the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Studies 'Gabriele D'Annunzio.' His projects and contributions have received various awards and are featured in leading publications. In December 2024, a critical monograph on his work, written by Manuel Orazi, was published by Lettera Ventidue as part of the 'Imprinting' series.
Lecture recordings will be available on the APlus YouTube channel.
For more information and updates on A+ Lectures, visit the official page.