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Giovedì 19 novembre, nell'ambito delle attività del Dottorato Architettura Città Paesaggio e del Laboratorio di progettazione: Architettura e comunità emergenti (docente Francesco Careri) si terrà la conferenza di Philippe Rahm
Climatic Architecture La conferenza concluderà il seminario dottorale Energia e clima a cura di Paolo Civiero e Marco Ranzato
Climatic Architecture Architecture and urban design were traditionally shaped by climate and health, as we can read in the treatises of Vitruvius, Palladio, and Alberti. Exposure to wind and sun, as well as variations in temperature and humidity, influenced the forms of cities and buildings. These fundamental considerations were forgotten in the second half of the twentieth century, when the widespread use of fossil fuels for heating and air conditioning systems became enormous that are now contributing to global warming. Today, faced with the reality of climate change, and seeking to withstand heatwaves, spend less energy in winter, and reduce CO₂ emissions, we propose grounding our discipline once again in the intrinsic climatic qualities of forms and materials. Air, light, heat, and humidity should be recognized as true building materials; convection, conduction, evaporation, emissivity, and thermal effusivity should become composition tools for shaping cities and buildings—tools capable of revolutionizing aesthetic and social values through the principle of dialectical materialism.
Philippe Rahm Philippe Rahm is a Swiss architect who graduated from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and holds a doctorate from the University of Paris-Saclay. His firm, Philippe Rahm architectes, is based in Paris. His projects include Taichung Central Park in Taiwan, which opened in 2020 (with Mosbach Paysagistes). He is the author of the books Climatic Architecture and The Anthropocene Style, as well as the book Natural History of Architecture, to be published in 2026. He has taught at Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, HEAD – Geneva (HES-SO), and ENSA Versailles. He has participated in numerous biennials, notably those in Venice (2025), Tbilisi (2024), Madrid (2024), Chicago (2023), and Tallinn (2022). In 2025, he is co-curating the Île-de-France and Saint-Étienne biennials. He is a Knight of the Order of Cultural Merit of Monaco and has received the Silver Medal from the French Academy of Architecture.
Giovedì 19 novembre 2026 | ore 17.30 Dipartimento di Architettura | aula De Renzi Ingressi: da Lungotevere | Largo Giovanni Battista Marzi 10 da Testaccio | Piazza Orazio Giustiniani 4
