Studio Details

Location
Venice, Italy

Date
3-14th July, 2023

Studio Directors in Venice
Martino Tattara (partner, Dogma), Pier Vittorio Aureli (partner, Dogma), Celeste Tellarini (senior architect, Dogma)

Studio Project
Living and Working. A reinterpretation of Venetian residential typologies. Territorial strategy at the scale of the northern lagoon

Field Trips and Site Visits
Northern Venice lagoon (Fondamente Nuove, Arsenale, Cimitero, Murano, Vignole, Certosa)

Studio Project

Alvise
Living and Working in the Venice Lagoon

Since the 19th century, the city of Venice has had a longstanding relationship with the tourist industry whose predatory logic is overkilling the city and its lagoon. Our studio is part of a research that aims to find alternatives to the tourist industry by working within a framework based on the social role of university, cultural production, and knowledge in general. For the Venice Studio we propose to work on the Northern edge of the city by devising a series of housing projects. These interventions can be understood as public facilities that provide living and working spaces to artists from both Venice and abroad. The project aims to go beyond the ‘Biennale effect’ and understand the art system not just in terms of consumption but also – and especially –  in terms of production, in which affordable living and working space play a crucial role. The studio will start its activities with presentations on Venice’s urban form, the history and present situation of the artist’s studio and a reasoned selection of strategic sites for intervention. Students will work on experimental residential typologies for artist’s living and working spaces.

Dogma

Dogma was founded in 2002 by Pier Vittorio Aureli and Martino Tattara. From the beginning of its activities, Dogma has worked on the relationship between architecture and the city by focusing mostly on urban design and large-scale projects. Dogma is active in offering consultancies to municipalities and agencies concerned with urban planning and architectural issues. Parallel to the design projects, the members of Dogma have intensely engaged with teaching, writing, and research, activities that have been an integral part of the office’s engagement with architecture. In the last years, Dogma has been working on a research by design trajectory that focuses on domestic space and its potential for transformation. This work, made of studies and projects, has been exhibited at different venues among which the Tallinn Architectural Biennale (2014), the HKW Berlin (2015), the Biennale di Venezia (2016), the Chicago Architectural Biennial (2017), and the London Design Museum (2018). In 2006, Dogma has won the 1st Iakov Chernikhov Prize for the best emerging architectural practice.

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