Mark Wigley, Dean of the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University, will  moderate a panel discussion on the significance and legacy of the celebrated 1972 MoMA exhibition Italy: The New Domestic Landscape organized by Emilio Ambasz.

Participants include
Andrea Branzi, writer, architect and member of the design collective Archizoom, Milan
Gaetano Pesce, architect, artist and designer, New York
Mario Bellini, architect and designer, Mario Bellini Architects, Milan

Introductions by Barry Bergdoll, Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at MoMA and Emilio Ambasz, architect, designer and curator.

Please RSVP via e-mail:  localevents-gsapp@columbia.edu

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These discussions and the Columbia University exhibition Environments and Counter Environments: Experimental Media in Italy: The New Domestic Landscape, MoMA 1972 form the first of a two part program organized by the GSAPP in association with MoMA, Department of Architecture and Design, to revisit the curatorial projects of Emilio Ambasz. The second part of the program will revisit "The Universitas Project," a two-day conference which was sponsored in 1972 by the Museum's International Council and the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies and conceived and directed by Emilio Ambasz.  This second event will be held at MoMA in Fall 2009.

"Environments and Counter Environments: Experimental Media in Italy: The New Domestic Landscape, MoMA 1972," curated by Mark Wasiuta, Peter Lang and Luca Molinari is on view April 13, 2009 through May 8, 2009 (Gallery Hours: Monday - Friday, 12 - 6 p.m.) at the Arthur Ross Gallery, Buell Hall, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University.

This project was made possible in part by the generous support of The Robert C. and Loren Pack Beyer Fund and the Italian Cultural Institute, New York.