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STEVEN HOLL "ON STONE"
Presentation by Francesco Moschini
Speeches by
Antonio Gabellone, Mario Mangione, Massimo Crusi, Annette Goderbauer, Paola Iacucci, Antonella Mari
Acaya Castle, 10th july 2010 - 15th january 2011 / from 7.30 p.m.
A critical foreward by Francesco Moschini will open the exhibition on Steven Holl's work in the Acaya Castle. This event is
another result of the on-going joint effort of several istitutions (the Province of Lecce, the Institut for Mediterranean Cultures
and Teknè) in promoting contemporary architecture and its protagonists. In fact Steven Holl arrives in Salento immediately
after relevant previous exhibitions dedicated to Heinz Tesar, Alvaro Siza e Eladio Dieste.
In a global context marked by a growing interdependence among local realities geographically and culturally still far away
from each other, contemporary architecture is a chance for cross-contamination and fertilization, an innovation carrier while searching for a possible balance between local identity and international spread.
Rewarded by most prestigious international prizes and all over published and exhibited, Steven Holl's work interprets this
tension through a research that keeps the same intensity in designing furniture or private houses as in designing wide
urban schemes, applying to far and strongly historical local contexts up to big western and asiatic metropolis.
This exhibition is intended to be an occasion to think about the processes that marked all recent artistical productions by
the atelier Steven Ho
