Architect, Guido Canali, one of the founders of industrial architecture and architect of Prada’s industrial sites for over twenty years, held a Lectio Magistralis on 22nd October at the evocative Teatro Farnese in Parma before representatives of local institutions and a large audience of architects, experts, students and simple architecture aficionados from all over Italy.
The Lectio Magistralis was the final phase of the “Canali associati. Architecture in Lombardy, Emilia and Tuscany”, which began last September and hosted a series of guided tours and first-hand experiences at the Prada, Pinko and Smeg headquarters, in the Museo delle Statue Stele in Pontremoli, as well as inside the Museo del Duomo and through the Parco Victoria residential centre, both of which are in Milan.
During the Lectio Magistralis, it appeared that Prada and Canali had been precursors of a vision for sustainable industrial architecture that was environmentally and worker-friendly, had ties with the location and was able to communicate with the natural environment in which it had been inserted.
Guido Canali Lectio Magistralis
