The exhibition displays 33 plates drawn from the Marciana photo album by Luigi Montabone, photographer for the first Regno d’Italia (Kingdom of Italy) mission in Iran titled "Ricordo del viaggio in Persia della missione italiana 1862". (Memories of the journey to Persia with the Italian Mission in 1862)
The plates respect the progression of the mission's itinerary to reach Tehran, while there are frequent variations in the sequence of photographs relating to individual locations.
Introduction by Maria Letizia Sebastiani (director of the Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana).
Speakers: Alberto Prandi (Cà Foscari University, Venice) and Mirella Canzian (Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana)

Info:
Phone: 041.24.07.21.1
Fax: 041.52.38.80.3

Given a Free Hand is a photographic carte blanche commission given to the American photographer Alex MacLean to reveal the historical, urban and social continuity that has been established along one of the world’s grandest urban axes.

admission free
Organization: Public Development Authorities of La Défense Seine Arche
Info:
CA'ASI
Phone 041 2410939
asi@architecture-studio.fr

The city of Venice seen in its new ultra-modern prospective, as a metropolitan city, out of the picturesque, mapped and reinterpreted from two points of view: the first is called Detour, an itinerant project presenting Moleskine notebooks donated by their creators to the no‐profit lettera27 Foundation, here addressing Venice for the first time with a special edition after previous stops in New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Istanbul, and Tokyo; the second is known as myDetour, and presents
notebooks from 20 students from VIU, and prestigious international academies and universities, as
well as from inhabitants of the city of Venice itself.
This event is collateral to the 12th International Architecture Exhibition.
Free admittance

Info:
Venice International University
Phone 041 2719511
Fax 2719510

Show by the artist Oliviero Zane. He likes experimenting and uses his ability to mould the forms which his imagination suggests to him.
He produces installations, applications and decorative pendants, also using recycled materials.
The result is a combination of multiple objects, or parts which create unusual shapes matching glass, resins, wood and lead giving shape also to light metal.

Info:
Tel. 041 5260162 -­ 041 5262972
Fax. 041 5265277
info@hotelvillapannonia.it

A photographic project based on earthquake consequences that hit Aquila and its territory. Individual and collective identity, material and intangible property, common wealth. Besides the show, there will be a meeting and an urban arcade involving the town with images posted in the most strategic places. This event is collateral with the International Show of Architecture event.


Info:
Associazione Culturale fuori_vista
Phone 041 5208493, 335 5426548
annazemella@annazeta.it
Palazzo Ducale
Phone 041 2715911
Fax 041 5285028
info: info@fmcvenezia.it