IaN+
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Carmelo Baglivo (1964), Luca Galofaro (1965), Stefania Manna (1969)
Carmelo Baglivo (1964), Luca Galofaro (1965), Stefania Manna (1969)
Created
in Rome in 1997, IaN+ is a multidisciplinary platform focusing at once on
design, teaching, architectural publications and exhibitions, all in search
of an articulation between theory and practice. For IaN+, architecture is
not a fixed object, but rather a system of on-going relations and exchanges.
The space in which the IaN+ members are keen to operate is not a simple
landscape, but a "living system": they intentionally use the term
"territory", seen as the middle term, the intermediate relation
between a landscape and the human beings living in it. In this "territory",
in this human space, architecture represents a sort of interference which
has to respond to the issues raised by a reformulated kind of ecology. It
is in the vein of this "New Ecology", which is more time- than
space-related, and more relational than natural, that they have prepared
their recent projects: an urban scheme in Rome, connecting two small islands,
two buildings and a park; a carpark building, again in Rome, whose façade
enhances and informs the public place; and a museum in Japan, where the
architecture has the effect of a prism in the way the surrounding landscape
can be read and interpreted.