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ARDUINO CANTÀFORA, LUCA ORTELLI An Education in the Real, L’Atelier Cantàfora An Education in the Real, L’atelier Cantàfora, is an exhibition devoted to the pedagogical legacy of Arduino Cantàfora, a Milanese painter, writer, and professor of Architectural Drawing at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. It presents hundreds of painted wooden panels produced by students between 1992 and 1996, depicting urban façades in Geneva and Lausanne at a 1:5 scale, alongside rigorous exercises such as steam locomotives, enlarged beetles, and anatomically precise skeletons. The exhibition affirms Cantàfora’s belief in analogue representation as foundational architectural knowledge. A public discussion between Arduino Cantàfora …
Who develops, finances, and commissions architecture—and in whose interest? This lecture series examines the often-invisible forces that shape architectural production—the clients who commission, the contractors who build, and the capital flows that determine what gets realized. While architects are trained to focus on design, the political economy of construction is largely absent from architectural education—sustaining a disciplinary insularity that obscures architecture's deep entanglement with capital, labor, and power. Yet building is fundamentally contingent: dependent on forces beyond the designer's reach, shaped by actors whose decisions constrain and enable architecture far more than design intentions. The series invites scholars and practitioners …
