Exhibition, mini-conference and presentation of the book "Venice: how and why"

May 19 at 17:00 at the European University, the exhibition “Visualizing Venice. New technologies for urban history ”, organized together with the IUAV Venice Architectural University. In 2010, IUAV, in cooperation with Duke University (USA) and Paduan University, created a laboratory that specializes in the use of modern digital technologies in architecture, restoration, urban research and urban planning. Part of the project is an international mobile exposition that has already been shown in different cities of Italy, in Croatia, China and now arrived in St. Petersburg.

At the exhibition at the European University, examples of studies performed as part of the Visualizing Venice project will be demonstrated. These works have a very different scale and character - from the historical study and visualization of huge complexes (Venetian arsenal or city hospital) to a deep analysis of the past of a separate building.

At 17:00 in the White Hall, the EUSPB will open a mini-conference "Architectural heritage of the historical city: study, preservation, rethinking."

Architectural historian Christiano Gavarneri will present the project "Visualizing Venice." One of the leading Venetian experts in the field of preserving the historical heritage of Georgio Dzhanigan will share the experience of the restoration of the Campanila Mark, which is one of the main symbols of the city. The St. Petersburg architect Maxim Atants will tell about the use of the classical heritage in the modern development project of Tuchkov Buyan. Urbanist and sociologist Olga Trezneva (University of Amsterdam, EUSPB) in his speech will discuss the ruining of urban space. Architect Alexander Strugach will talk about the project of renovation of the Petrovsky Doca complex in Kronstadt.

The final part of the event (19:30) is the presentation of the new publication of the book "Venice: how and why." In written by professional architects and restorers, a popular publication with excellent drawn illustrations tells how Venice, its space and buildings are arranged. The book has already been published in five languages ​​with a common circulation of 20 thousand copies and its Russian version has now been published. At the presentation of the book, the authors, Georgio Dzhanigan and Paola Pavaninini, will share their knowledge of Venice "first -hand."

We invite to the Venetian evening in European architects, restorers, urbanists, specialists in urban history and all those interested in world experience and advanced technologies for the study and preservation of historical heritage.