Body/Bodies
Giovanni Corbellini présentera son livre Let’s Get Physical: Bodies, Bowels, Bowls, 2024 (ed. Italienne Sesso e cacca. L'architettura prende corpo, 2025).
Cette conférence s'inscrit dans le Cycle de conférences proposé par l'équipe des conférences et les commissaires de la White Week 2027 (1/5.02.2027) « Humains malgré tout. Les toilettes, du corps au territoire ».
Organisatrice du Cycle de conférences : Alice Grégoire
Commissariat White Week : Roberta Borghi, Magali Paris et Paola Scaramuzza.
Résumé
Architecture has become modern by coming closer to the human body and only by focussing on the body’s needs and desires can it keep pace with the contemporary world. Typological innovations such as the corridor and the toilet made it possible to articulate the thresholds between private and public in a more sophisticated way, deeply changing the way we inhabit, interact with others, and our whole self-awareness. It is quite a recent and restless story that, despite architecture’s intrinsic stability, has witnessed over the two last centuries lively dialectics between established habits and challenging design experiments. The more architectural design has tried to deal with our bodily concreteness the more meaningful and controversial its results. Now that technical prostheses are becoming increasingly pervasive, getting physical seems a hard but inevitable goal.
Biographie
Giovanni Corbellini (1959), architect, PhD, critic of contemporary architecture, taught in Venice, Ferrara, Milan, Trieste and is currently Full Professor of Architectural Design and Theory at the Politecnico of Turin. Among his many essays: Sesso e cacca. L’architettura prende corpo (LetteraVentidue, 2025), Let’s Get Physical: Bodies, Bowels, Bowls (Ediciones Asimétricas, 2024), Sayable Space: Narrative Practices in Architecture (LetteraVentidue, 2021), Ex libris: 16 Keywords of Contemporary Architecture (LetteraVentidue, 2019), Telling Spaces (LetteraVentidue, 2018), Dr. Corbellini’s Pills (LetteraVentidue, 2016), Recycled Theory: Dizionario illustrato/Illustrated Dictionary (edited with Sara Marini, Quodlibet, 2016), Bioreboot. The architecture of R&Sie(n) (Princeton Architectural Press, 2009).
