MANTOVARCHITETTURA is a cultural project conceived and organised by the Mantova Campus of Politecnico di Milano, as part of the activities of the UNESCO Chair in Architectural Planning and Protection in World Heritage Cities. Initiated by the series of international conferences promoted since 2012 in this context, the initiative proposes a rich programme of exhibitions, workshops, conferences, and meetings with the protagonists of international architectural culture, which every year, in the month of May, transform Mantua into the Capital of Architecture.
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On September 23rd, 2022, at 12 noon, the first stage of the exhibition Architetture d’acqua was opened at the Museo Civico Polironiano in San Benedetto Po. The exhibition is open until 13 November 2022, from Friday to Sunday from 09:30 to 12:30 and from 15:30 to 18:30. During the week by appointment. “Architetture d’acqua” is a research project conceived and implemented by the Mantova Campus of Politecnico di Milano and the UNESCO Chair in Architectural Preservation and Planning in World Heritage Cities
Architetture d’acqua @ Centrale Termica di Travata (Bagnolo San Vito)
On December 15, 2022, at 1.00 p.m., the second stage of the exhibition Architetture d’acqua – presented last September at the Museo Civico Polironiano in San Benedetto Po – was inaugurated at the La Travata water-scooping plant, located on the bend of the River Mincio near the municipality of Bagnolo San Vito. The exhibition will be open until February 28, 2023, by appointment. “Architetture d’acqua” is a research project conceived and implemented by the Mantova Campus of Politecnico di Milano and the UNESCO Chair in Architectural Preservation and Planning in World Heritage Cities
Protecting historic cities and landscape
On the 15th Anniversary of the inscription of Mantova and Sabbioneta on the UNESCO World Heritage list, the UNESCO Chair in Architectural Preservation and Planning in World Heritage Cities (Politecnico di Milano) and two municipalities of Mantova and Sabbioneta have come together to organize a workshop to reflect on complex issues relating to the Management of a UNESCO World Heritage property that is a living historic city. In this regard, the 2011 UNESCO Recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape (HUL) is a tool to integrate policies and practices of heritage conservation of the built environment into the wider goals of urban development in respect of the inherited values and traditions of different cultural contexts (https://whc.unesco.org/en/hul)