Book launch: Performing Architecture

Join us for the launch of Performing Architecture – A project by BASE Milano and DOPO?, edited by Salvatore Peluso.

Performing Architecture is a collective reflection that expands on the eponymous citywide festival in Milan, first launched last year through a collaboration between BASE and DOPO?. The festival took place in five of the city’s districts – Corvetto, Chiaravalle, Stadera, Barona and Tortona – with five artists and designers staging performances, installations and public actions. The festival experiments with hybrid design approaches, where the body and space interact to rewrite how we experience the city.

The book is formed of a collection of stories and site-specific interventions, designed by an architect and a performer in collaboration with a local organisation rooted to the five districts in Milan. Performing Architecture is a laboratory of experimentation, intended as exercises in collective thinking and fostering dialogue and active participation within local communities. Comprising three essays by Linda Di Pietro, Salvatore Peluso and Alessandro Pasero, as well as five conversations between the participating authors, the publication is not a celebration of the festival but seeks to reinterpret it critically.

We'll be welcoming Sabrina Morreale, Lorenzo Perri, Linda Di Pietro and Alessandro Pasero to the bookshop for a conversation on this fantastic new publication.

The book will be available at a launch price of £18 (RRP £21.50).

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Sabrina Morreale and Lorenzo Perri are architects, educators and founding partners of Lemonot, a duo for spatial and relational practices, architecture and performative arts.

Linda Di Pietro is a cultural strategist and artistic director working across contemporary culture, performing practices and spatial transformation.

Alessandro Pasero is an architect and researcher. His practice moves between architecture, installation and performance.