For one week, Rome will be the international capital of architecture. Two events – promoted by MAXXI Foundation, chaired by Pio Baldi, as part of “MAXXI Sees The Light” – of the rich program that will accompany the final rush towards the Grand Opening of the National Museum of 21st Century Art, in the spring of 2010. 

The first event to take place is the “Exhibiting Architecture| The 21st Century Museum International Symposium,” by Margherita Guccione, Director of MAXXI architecture, coordinated by Maristella Casciato and Pippo Ciorra. The international symposium, organized together with Musica per Roma Foundation, will be held 9 - 10 November at the Auditorium Parco della Musica. The Directors of some of the world’s most important museums and architecture institutions, as well as a number of reputable curators, critics and scholars will meet for the first time in Rome to take part in an intense debate. 

Rome will thus be the capital of architecture for two days of debates between directors of various institutions and curators, as well as architects, town-planners and historians, who will make an unprecedented contribution to the multitude of meanings of the Museum of the 21st Century, understood as a space for building a “discourse” on the constantly evolving contemporary culture. The following issues will be dealt with during the conference: 

defining the tasks of the Italian Museum of Architecture; 

defining the nature and peculiar aspects of the curating activity in the realm of international projects; 

identifying privileged interlocutors and the public of reference; 

reconciling the activity of keeping documentary memory with the promotion and call for a topical debate on architecture. 


From 07 November on www.maxxi.beniculturali.it a link to the MAXXI tv channel will be activated. Curated by Ultrafragola Channels TV, media partner of the event, it will be updated daily with referencies, interviews and news about the international conference. 




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