Middle-class Housing in Perspective: from Post-war Construction to Post-millennial Urban Landscape International Symposium

Politecnico di Milano (Aula De Donato), School of Architecture and Society, Milan, Italy

Thursday November 22nd- Friday November 23rd, 2012

Organizers: Bruno Bonomo, Gaia Caramellino and Federico Zanfi

Scientific Board: Bruno Bonomo, Gaia Caramellino, Alessandro Demagistris, Filippo De Pieri, Monique Eleb, Maria Auxiliadora Gálvez, Bernardo Secchi, Giovanni Semi, Federico Zanfi

Keynote speaker: prof. Sako Musterd, University of Amsterdam

Speakers: Antonello Alici and Le Ngoc Van Anh, Eveline Althaus and Marie Glaser, Wouter Bervoets, Stéphanie Dadour, Els De Vos, Cristina Dreifuss Serrano, Lionel Engrand, Yankel Fijalkow with Lydie Launay and Stéphanie Vermeersch, Filipa Fiúza and João Cardim, Rana Sadat Habibi and Bruno De Meulder, Hakan Forsell with Celina Kress and Baris Ülker, Myrto Kiourti, Giovanni La Varra, Jonathan Massey, Luca Molinari and Chiara Ingrosso, Cecilia Mouat, Stefano Munarin and Maria Chiara Tosi, Gabriele Neri, Soline Nivet, Catherine Rhein, Graziella Roccella, Matthew Soules, Juliette Spertus and Susanne Schindler, Marieke van Rooij, Sanjeev Vidyarthi

For a detailed program, information on venue, and to download the book of abstracts, information, please visit: http://www.middleclasshousinginperspective.net

Seminar registration: The registration fee is free. To attend the seminar, please register by sending an email to info@middleclasshousinginperspective.net

The symposium is organized within the research project Architectures for the middle classes in Italy: 1950s-1970s. For a social history of dwelling in Turin, Milan and Rome, funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Scientific Research through the program Firb Futuro in Ricerca 2008. For further leads: www.middleclasshomes.net/