Draft:Marco Brizzi

Marco Brizzi is an Italian architecture critic, curator, and educator. He is one of the founders of Image, a Florence-based organisation devoted to the intersection of architecture and media, and founder and director of Beyond Media, an international festival for architecture and video held in Florence from 1997 to 2009. As a founding director of arch'it (1995–2011), one of the first architecture magazines published online anywhere in the world, he was nominated finalist for the Golden Medal for Architectural Criticism awarded by the Triennale di Milano.

Education

Brizzi graduated in architecture from the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Florence in 1997. He obtained his PhD from the Faculty of Architecture of the Università degli Studi "G. D'Annunzio" of Chieti-Pescara in 2006.

Career

arch'it (1995–2011)

In 1995, arch'it (www.architettura.it) was founded in Florence by a group of architects — among them Brizzi, who became its editorial director — who were part of the early circle that would later form the internet company DADA. One of the first architecture magazines published online anywhere in the world, and the first of its kind in Italy, arch'it emerged at a moment of profound transformation in architectural publishing: the rise of online media was broadening access to critical debate and opening space for younger generations of architects and critics who found little room in established print journals. Architecture critic Pippo Ciorra described it as "the most solid and well-known online architecture magazine based in Italy", noting its combination of digital publishing and cultural programming around the relationship between architecture and media.[1] Luca Molinari wrote of Brizzi's role in reshaping the conditions of architectural criticism in Italy in the digital era.[2] As director of arch'it, Brizzi was nominated finalist for the Golden Medal for Architectural Criticism awarded by the Triennale di Milano in 2003.

Image and Beyond Media (1997–2009)

In 1997, Brizzi co-founded Image, an organisation dedicated, in his words, to "enhancing the design discourse by means of a wider knowledge of media issues in architecture".[3] That same year, Image organised the first edition of what would become Beyond Media, an international festival for architecture and video held in Florence, which van der Hoorn describes as an event "promoting the emergence of a new agenda for contemporary architecture by means of a more widespread awareness of the role of the media of communication in the professional as well as in the didactic field".[3]

Beyond Media emerged in a broader international context that included precursor events such as the film+arc.graz biennial in Austria and the FIFARC festival in Bordeaux. Its field of inquiry centred on videos made by architects — used not only as tools of representation but as autonomous expressive and critical instruments for architectural thought. The festival placed particular emphasis on emerging voices: architects and filmmakers whose engagement with the possibilities opened by digital culture was reshaping the practice of architectural communication and criticism. Architecture critic Pedro Gadanho described it as one of the leading international events in this field.[4] Ciorra characterised it as "an important festival dedicated to investigating the intriguing triangle of relationships between media, architecture and communication".[5] Writing in Dezeen, India Block noted that festivals such as Beyond Media had been instrumental in establishing architecture film as "a genre in the making".[6]

Over nine editions, the festival was supported by the Italian Ministry of Culture, the Region of Tuscany, the Municipality of Florence, and the University of Florence. Around its core programme of video screenings, each edition developed a structured series of talks bringing together architects, communication scholars, critics, scientists, and artists to explore the year's theme. The festival also hosted exhibitions: among them Spot on Schools, curated by Paola Giaconia, which in the later editions gathered research and projects from dozens of architecture and design schools worldwide that were investigating the relationship between architecture and media. The final edition, Visions (2009), presented 80 videos selected from over 600 submissions from 35 countries. The videos gathered across the festival's history form an archive of over 4,000 works, which Image has subsequently presented at museums and cultural institutions.

Between 2000 and 2010, Brizzi also curated the exhibition programme of the Spazio Espositivo di Santa Verdiana (SESV) of the University of Florence, where Image organised shows dedicated to emerging practices in Italian and international architecture.

The Architecture Player (2015–2020)

In 2015, Brizzi founded The Architecture Player (www.architectureplayer.com), an online platform designed to make the Beyond Media archive progressively accessible to the public and to extend curatorial activity around architecture in video. The platform ceased publishing new content in 2020 and remains available online as an archive.

The Architecture Curator (1997–present)

Alongside his editorial and curatorial work, Brizzi has directed an agency working at the intersection of architecture criticism and cultural communication. Founded in 1997 as Image, it evolved into Cultivar in 2018 and subsequently into The Architecture Curator (www.thearchitecturecurator.com), co-directed with Paola Giaconia. The agency works with architects and institutions to present and communicate architecture projects of cultural merit through editorial outreach, cultural relations, and critical promotion. Among the practices with which Brizzi has collaborated in this capacity are Flores & Prats, WORKac, Alvisi Kirimoto, Maurice Nio, AMAA, and Ecòl.

Institutional collaborations

Among his institutional collaborations, Brizzi served as architecture advisor to the Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci in Prato, contributing to the museum's renewal programme in connection with its expansion designed by architect Maurice Nio, which opened in October 2016.[7]

Other editorial activity

Between 2009 and 2011, Brizzi served as editor-in-chief of FFF (Firenze Fast Forward, www.firenzefastforward.it), a magazine devoted to design visions for the city of Florence, co-founded with Gianni Sinni.

Teaching

Brizzi has taught at several Italian universities and through American university programmes based in Florence. Since 2000 he has been adjunct professor at the California State University Florence Program, and since 2009 at the Kent State University Florence Program, where he teaches Architecture and Media. Between 2013 and 2023 he was adjunct professor of Theory and History of Design Communication at the University of San Marino. He has also taught at the Università La Sapienza in Rome, the University of Florence, the University of Ferrara, and NABA (Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti) in Milan.

Recognition and advisory roles

Since 2008, Brizzi has been an advisor for the Mies van der Rohe Award. Since 2002, he has been an advisor for the Medaglia d'Oro all'Architettura Italiana awarded by the Triennale di Milano. He is a member of the Scientific Committee of Critica d'Arte magazine and of ANCSA (Associazione Nazionale Centri Storico Artistici).

Selected publications

Books (as editor or co-editor, selection)

  • Marco Brizzi, Maurizio Sabini (eds.), La nuova Torino / The New Turin, Alinea, Florence, 2011. ISBN 9788860556516.
  • Marco Brizzi, Paola Giaconia (eds.), Visions: Beyond Media 09, Image Publishing, Florence, 2009. ISBN 9788896531006.
  • Marco Brizzi, Rotte Metropolitane. Firenze è sommersa, Maschietto Editore, Florence, 2009. ISBN 978-8863940053.
  • Marco Brizzi, Paola Giaconia (eds.), Script: Beyond Media 05, Compositori, Bologna, 2006. ISBN 978-88-7794-664-5.
  • Marco Brizzi, Paola Giaconia (eds.), Intimacy: Beyond Media 03, Mandragora, Florence, 2004. ISBN 887461022X.
  • 2A+P, Marco Brizzi, Luigi Prestinenza Puglisi, La generazione della rete. Nuove sperimentazioni architettoniche nel panorama italiano, Cooper & Castelvecchi, Rome, 2003. ISBN 88-7394-017-X.

Essays in books (selection)

  • "Architectures Mapped Out in Publishing", in: Pino Brugellis, Gianni Pettena, Alberto Salvadori (eds.), Utopie Radicali, Quodlibet, Macerata, 2017.
  • "Primo movimento. Allegro vivace e con brio", in: Fabio Cavallucci (ed.), La fine del mondo / The End of the World, Silvana, Milan, 2016.
  • "L'architettura sotto gli occhi di tutti / Everyone's Eyes on Architecture", in: Margherita Guccione (ed.), MAXXI. Cantiere d'autore, Electa, Milan, 2006.
  • "In Praise of the Fragment", in: Frédéric Migayrou, Marie-Ange Brayer (eds.), Archilab: Radical Experiments in Global Architecture, Thames & Hudson, London, 2001.
  • "La pubblica intimità dell'immagine digitale", in: Livio Sacchi, Maurizio Unali (eds.), Architettura e cultura digitale, Skira, Milan, 2003.

Selected press and scholarly coverage

  • Pippo Ciorra, Senza architettura. Le ragioni di una crisi, Editori Laterza, Rome-Bari, 2011, pp. 73, 98.
  • Gabriele Mastrigli, "Nello spazio di un frame", il manifesto, 4 May 2002.
  • Mélanie van der Hoorn, "Archiporn or Storylines?", MAS Context, issue 20 ("Narrative"), Winter 2013, ISSN 2332-5046.
  • Eugenio Pandolfini, "Triggering Reality", Domus, 31 January 2013.
  • Valentina Ciuffi, "Prato d'Oro", Living – Corriere della Sera, n. 10, October 2016, pp. 105–108.
  • Lina Malfona, "La critica in rete", Rassegna di Architettura e Urbanistica, n. 133, Sapienza Università di Roma, January–April 2011, pp. 94–107.
  • India Block, "Architecture film is 'a genre in the making' as festivals multiply", Dezeen, 22 December 2017.
  • Salvatore D'Agostino, "Il denotatore digitale: Marco Brizzi", Wilfing Architettura, 31 January 2012.

See also

References

  1. ^ Pippo Ciorra, Senza architettura. Le ragioni di una crisi, Editori Laterza, Rome-Bari, 2011, p. 73.
  2. ^ Luca Molinari, "La critica per l'architettura in Italia. Punto e a capo", Il Post, 17 June 2013.
  3. ^ a b Mélanie van der Hoorn, "Archiporn or Storylines? Creative Architectural Commercials as Challenges to the Communication and Marketing of Architecture", MAS Context, issue 20 ("Narrative"), Winter 2013, ISSN 2332-5046, https://mascontext.com/issues/narrative/archiporn-or-storylines-creative-architectural-commercials-as-challenges-to-the-communication-and-marketing-of-architecture/
  4. ^ Pedro Gadanho, "Beyond the digital turn", Volume, 21 July 2009.
  5. ^ Pippo Ciorra, Senza architettura. Le ragioni di una crisi, Editori Laterza, Rome-Bari, 2011, p. 98.
  6. ^ India Block, "Architecture film is 'a genre in the making' as festivals multiply", Dezeen, 22 December 2017, https://www.dezeen.com/2017/12/22/architecture-film-movies-genre-in-the-making-festivals-multiply/
  7. ^ Valentina Ciuffi, "Prato d'Oro", Living – Corriere della Sera, n. 10, October 2016, pp. 105–108.

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