Thu
15
May
Seminars and Conferences
Lecture 9: Mia Roth-Čerina | Transitions: A Reflection in Four Chapters
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 ninth event of the A+lectures 2025 series will take place on May 15, from 1:00 to 2:30 PM, in Aula 201 of Lingotto Campus of Politecnico di Torino. The guest speaker will be Mia Roth-Čerina, introduced by DAD Professor Michela Barosio, with a lecture titled Transitions: A Reflection in Four Chapters.
Mia Roth-Čerina is an architect and professor at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Zagreb. Her interests in practice, teaching and research intersect and focus on spaces serving the public. Projects designed within the practice she leads with Tonči Čerina have been awarded in competitions and received or nominated for national and international awards. In 2023 they curated the Croatian pavilion at the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale.
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 ninth event of the A+lectures 2025 series will take place on May 15, from 1:00 to 2:30 PM, in Aula 201 of Lingotto Campus of Politecnico di Torino. The guest speaker will be Mia Roth-Čerina, introduced by DAD Professor Michela Barosio, with a lecture titled Transitions: A Reflection in Four Chapters.
Mia Roth-Čerina is an architect and professor at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Zagreb. Her interests in practice, teaching and research intersect and focus on spaces serving the public. Projects designed within the practice she leads with Tonči Čerina have been awarded in competitions and received or nominated for national and international awards. In 2023 they curated the Croatian pavilion at the 18th Venice Architecture Biennale.
Lecture recordings will be available on the APlus YouTube channel.
For more information and updates on A+ Lectures, visit the official page.