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Student Work Exhibit in Rome Museum displayed through November 28
August 2nd, 2010 — Faculty member Carmen Guerrero, director of the school’s Rome Program, and her students were recently invited to display a collection of their models and drawings at the new MAXXI museum in Rome. Their work is being displayed through November 28 as part of an inaugural exhibition titled “Luigi Moretti Architetto from Rationalism to the Informal.” The collection has played a valuable role in the preservation of the work of Italian architect Luigi Moretti, and the opening is a significant curatorial event for researchers of modern architecture in Europe. Guerrero has led her students in the research of Moretti for more than three years and has shown their work in Rome, Switzerland, and Miami. For more information go to http://www.fondazionemaxxi.it/en/mostre_corso_moretti.aspx.
Mahogany wood model of Luigi Moretti’s Corso Italia project in Milan. Model constructed by Andrew Reich, Rachel Thomas and Amanda del Rio, Faculty Supervisor; Carmen L. Guerrero. Corso Italia is a mix-use project in the historic center of Milan built (1949-56) during Italy’s post war reconstruction period. It is a complex made up of three volumes positioned to create an irregular building line while allowing open courtyard areas between them as well as a new public thoroughfare. The UM students worked on the model while the actual renovation was taking place in Milan.
