Conference Dinner
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Your Conference Tours or Dinner may be added during the registration process in the registration area. However, if you have already registered and now wish to add a tour or dinner, please email the Conference Secretariat at this link with your request.
After your original registration, payment for additional dinner and/or tours will be charged to the credit card that we have on file for you. If you prefer that an alternate card be charged, please submit the new card number when submitting your amended booking request.
Conference Dinner
Conference Dinner - Restaurant Corte Sconta -
Thursday, 18 November 2010 - 8:00-10:00 PM (20:00-22:00)
The Corte Sconta is now an important point of reference on the Venetian restaurant scene. Quality and freshness are ensured by using strictly seasonal products, attentively served in a space more geared to function than to form.
The meal will include their acclaimed antipasti, fresh vegetables and local seafood delivered daily, handmade pasta made fresh each day, along with a delicate desert. Their special house blend of Prosecco will also be served during the course of meal. The entire meal will offer you a pleasant memory and yet another reason for coming back to Venice.
Conference Tours
Conference Tour - Guided Tour of Fondazione Querini Stampalia -
Wednesday, 17 November 2010 - 10:30-11:30 AM (10:30-11:30)
Palazzo Querini Stampalia, home of the Foundation of the same name, was established in 1868 by Count Giovanni Querini, who died the following year without direct heirs. The Foundation was established as a space for academic research, encompassing a library, archive, museum and exhibition space.
During the 1960s, the Foundation aimed to become a centre for new cultural events and the rooms on the ground floor, unused at that time due to frequent flooding, were needed to host exhibitions, meetings and other initiatives. Carlo Scarpa, an influential Italian architect, took on the restoration project which can be divided in four essential parts: the new bridge giving access to the building, the entrance, the portego and the garden - four places joined by a connecting path, which can be seen from the square next to the canal where glimpses of the inside the palace can be seen.
The museum houses 18th century and Neoclassical furniture, porcelain, bisque, sculpture, globes, mirrors and lamps of Murano glass and fabrics woven in historical designs and paintings from the 14th to the 20th century, most of which are from the Venetian school. Amongst the works on display are paintings by Giovanni Bellini, Lorenzo di Credi, Jacopo Palma il Vecchio, Bernardo Strozzi, Marco and Sebastiano Ricci, Giambattista Tiepolo, Pietro Longhi, Gabriel Bella, and a sketch by Antonio Canova.
Conference Tour - Guided Biennale Tour of the Arsenale and Giardini -
Wednesday, 17 November 2010 - 12:00-6:00 PM (12:00-18:00)
The tour will begin at 12:00 noon at the Fondazione Querini Stampalia. After arriving at the Arsenale, the outing will begin with a guided tour of the Arsenale, followed by time for exploration of the other exhibits within the Arsenale. The tour will then proceed to the Giardini della Biennale, where participants will be given a one-hour guided tour of the special exhibit, and then have time to visit the remaining exhibits in the Giardini.
More on the BiennaleThe 12th International Architecture Exhibition, entitled People meet in architecture by Kazuyo Sejima, will be laid out in the Palazzo delle Esposizioni della Biennale (Giardini) and in the Arsenale, forming a single itinerary, with 48 participants: firms, architects, engineers and artists from around the world. As usual, the Exhibition will present 53 National Participations to be held in the historical Pavilions in the Giardini, in the Arsenale and in various locations throughout the city of Venice. The title of the Padiglione Italia is AILATI. Reflections from the future. Organized by The Ministry for the Cultural Heritage and Activities, with thePaBAAC - General Direction for the landscape, fine arts, architecture and contemporary art, it is conceived by Luca Molinari. The first-time national participations include Albania, Kingdom of Bahrain, Iran, Malaysia, Morocco, and the Republic of Rwanda.
The DirectorBorn in Japan, in the prefecture of Ibaraki in 1956, Kazuyo Sejima is a leading exponent of contemporary architecture. In 1981, she took a degree in architecture at the Japan Women’s University and began working in the studio of Toyo Ito. In 1987, she opened her own studio in Tokyo.
In 1995, together with Ryue Nishizawa, she founded SANAA, the Tokyo studio that has designed some of the most innovative works of architecture built recently around the world, from the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York to the Serpentine Pavilion in London and from the Christian Dior Building in Omotesando (Tokyo) to the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, which won the Golden Lion in 2004 for the most significant work of the 9th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale. In 2000 she set up, together with Ryue Nishizawa, the Japanese Pavilion, named City of Girls, at the 7th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. The recent Rolex Learning Center in Lausanne, Switzerland (March 2010) and a branch of the Louvre Museum in Lens (now under construction) are also major projects of SANAA.
Kazuyo Sejima has taught at Princeton University and at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. She is currently a lecturer at Keio University. On May 17th 2010 - together with Ryue Nishizawa - she was awarded the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize 2010 in New York.
A constant focus on research characterizes all of her work, heir to the thousand-year tradition that has inspired the minimalist geometry of contemporary Japanese architecture. Toyo Ito describes her as “an architect who uses the maximum simplicity to link the material and the abstract”.
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