Monday / September 18, 2017 / 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
In conversation: Lapo Binazzi and Gianni Pettena
Art Institute of Chicago, Rubloff Auditorium, 230 South Columbus Drive, Chicago
At this SAIC event, Italian architects/artists/designers Lapo Binazzi and Gianni Pettena, who shaped the Radical Italian Design movement in the 1960s-1970s, will converse with Tim Parsons, Associate Professor at SAIC AIADO. Binazzi teaches furniture design at the Florence Institute of Design International. Pettena is a professor of History of Contemporary Architecture at the University of Florence and of Design at California State University.
(They will also speak at EXPO on September 15 during the Dialogues Art & Architecture Symposium from noon to 6:00 pm at Navy Pier.)