Davide Tommaso Ferrando
I am an architecture critic, researcher and curator, particularly interested in the intersections between architecture, city and media.
M.Arch in Advanced Architectural Design at ETSA Madrid and Ph.D in Architecture and Building Design at Politecnico di Torino, I am currently Research Fellow at the Faculty of Design and Art of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, as well as adjunct professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Innsbruck.
Previously, I have been Senior Scientist at the Department of Architectural Theory of the University of Innsbruck, adjunct professor at Politecnico di Torino, Università di Ferrara and ETSA Madrid, as well as invited lecturer in several institutions among which Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, Kent State University Florence, Westerdals School of Arts Communication and Technology Oslo, and Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture Karachi.
In 2016, I have been curator with Daniel Tudor Munteanu of the exhibition Unfolding Pavilion: Curated Archives, and scientific consultant for the Meeting the Commons section of the Italian Pavilion at the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale. In 2017, I have been curator with Nina Bassoli of the Festival Architettura in Città of Torino. In 2018, I have been curator with Daniel Tudor Munteanu and Sara Favargiotti of the exhibition and symposium Unfolding Pavilion: Little Italy.
Director of 011+, co-director of Viceversa, and editor of Realismoutopico, my writings are published in international magazines such as Architectural Review, Casabella and Volume, as well as in collective books. In 2018, I have published my first book: The City in the Image.
davidetommasoferrando@gmail.com
M.Arch in Advanced Architectural Design at ETSA Madrid and Ph.D in Architecture and Building Design at Politecnico di Torino, I am currently Research Fellow at the Faculty of Design and Art of the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, as well as adjunct professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Innsbruck.
Previously, I have been Senior Scientist at the Department of Architectural Theory of the University of Innsbruck, adjunct professor at Politecnico di Torino, Università di Ferrara and ETSA Madrid, as well as invited lecturer in several institutions among which Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, Kent State University Florence, Westerdals School of Arts Communication and Technology Oslo, and Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture Karachi.
In 2016, I have been curator with Daniel Tudor Munteanu of the exhibition Unfolding Pavilion: Curated Archives, and scientific consultant for the Meeting the Commons section of the Italian Pavilion at the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale. In 2017, I have been curator with Nina Bassoli of the Festival Architettura in Città of Torino. In 2018, I have been curator with Daniel Tudor Munteanu and Sara Favargiotti of the exhibition and symposium Unfolding Pavilion: Little Italy.
Director of 011+, co-director of Viceversa, and editor of Realismoutopico, my writings are published in international magazines such as Architectural Review, Casabella and Volume, as well as in collective books. In 2018, I have published my first book: The City in the Image.
davidetommasoferrando@gmail.com
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Among the many effects of this ongoing process, I would like here to point out how today’s culture and language have been fundamentally changed by the possibility for (almost) everyone to get access to powerful tools not just for producing, but also for retrieving, archiving, copying, pasting, editing, manipulating and disseminating digital contents. This unprecedented condition of accessibility, has recently allowed a growing number of editors to give birth to a new generation of architecture magazines , published on social platforms such as Tumblr, Facebook or Instagram .
Among the many effects of this ongoing process, I would like here to point out how today’s culture and language have been fundamentally changed by the possibility for (almost) everyone to get access to powerful tools not just for producing, but also for retrieving, archiving, copying, pasting, editing, manipulating and disseminating digital contents. This unprecedented condition of accessibility, has recently allowed a growing number of editors to give birth to a new generation of architecture magazines , published on social platforms such as Tumblr, Facebook or Instagram .
Whether they are the sophisticated technical images of the digital age or the elaborate images created through traditional media such as painting, engravings or the first photographs, these visual materials serve the author to explore and underpin a single idea: that urban images, far from being neutral, are always a political fact. Modelled by our perception and at the same time outlining it, urban images can be read as the visual manifestations of deeply intertwined systems of territorial, social, cultural and media-related factors. As expressions of the way we understand, represent and transform the city, they also provide a valuable tool to reconstruct the complexity of the urban realm, bringing it to a thinkable dimension.
Ferrando deploys these arguments—through close and tangible examples—in three autonomous chapters that shed light on one another. In them, he enters the invisible network of matter, people and messages that lies between the flat surfaces of what is visible, raising the following question: what effects do urban images have in the understanding and the very conception of the city and the urban realm, with all the social and political burden that this entails?