Time: 4:30pm
Location: Architecture and Urban Planning Building 170

Luigi Croce, an architect and professor, is a founding member of the Venice Architectural Association in Venice, Italy. Croce frames the work of this organization around facilitating study in a world where “sustainability” is a key issue in every aspect of redevelopment of the built environment. For Croce, canonic sites like Venice, where artifice and nature, stone and water blend, in such a unique manner, constitute not only a comforting link to the past and tradition, but also provide an inspiring context and a living example of what a city can and should be. He approaches Venice not simply as a romantic background, but as a real, problematic city whose specificities and values can provide profound lessons for contemporary architecture and urbanism.

He has been a lead participant in initiating "THE tall STONES OF VENICE," an international student workshop and competition, that is sponsored by the Venice Architectural Association in cooperation with the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat. This summer workshop brings students and faculty from around the globe to work for three weeks in Venice on proposals for high rise redevelopment in the derelict industrial zones of the Venice Lagoon borders.

"Venice: the Making of a City" presentation by Luigi Croce, architect and professor of architectural composition at the University of Udine, and architect, Studio Architetti Croce, Padua.

For more information, contact Associate Dean Gil Snyder at gsnyder@uwm.edu.