Please join Arturo Pavani for the next Jane Jacobs Lecture on The Minimum Palace is a design approach that originates from a pressing question for contemporary architects: how can the current legitimate and constant increase in demand for higher standards of living and comfort coexist with the limited resources at our disposal?
Combining Karel Teige’s concept of Existenz Minimum with the aspirational design principles behind traditional Palaces, this approach identifies a few good practices that might help today’s and tomorrow’s designers navigate these challenging issues.
This lecture is sponsored by Marywood University’s School of Architecture and the American Institute of Architects of Northeastern Pennsylvania.
AIA CEU Credit is available for this lecture.
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Arturo Pavani
Arturo Pavani is an Assistant Professor in Architecture and Construction Management at Marywood University School of Architecture in Scranton, PA. He comes from a professional background in Real Estate, with field and research experience in frontier markets. He has a Double Master's Degree from Tsinghua University in Beijing and Politecnico di Torino and a PhD in Architecture and Urban Studies. He has lived and worked in Italy, China, the UK, and the US, but his work often brought him to Africa, Asia, and other European countries.
His studies have focused on architecture practice and urban dynamics in emerging markets, starting with a Bachelor's thesis on the West African city of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. In his Master's thesis, he focused on the concept of the Existenz Minimum combined with the modern requirements for comfort, with a research project developed between China and Italy titled “The Minimum Palace”. In his PhD dissertation, he focused on the Real Estate and Urban Development dynamics of the Airport City neighborhood in Accra, Ghana.
