Amedeo Schiattarella
Amsterdam March 3 | 6:30 p.m.
Istituto Italiano di Cultura
Architecture
is never neutral
Listone Giordano, in collaboration with Seed is pleased to invite you to an evening dedicated to responsible design with an eye to the future, thanks to the testimony of a contemporary interpreter of these values.
In this lecture, in collaboration with the Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Amsterdam, Amedeo Schiattarella presents architecture as a civic and ethical act rooted in place and community. From the “void” as living space to projects in Rome and Saudi Arabia, the talk challenges global homogenization, highlighting architecture as a tool for identity, climate awareness, and social cohesion for those shaping future cities.
The Guglielmo Giordano Foundation promotes the event curated by IN/ARCH, the National Institute of Architecture, in collaboration with Domus magazine and the Italian Cultural Institute in Amsterdam.
Architecture is not a neutral act. It is not simply a technicality, nor is it an aesthetic exercise for its own sake. It is, first and foremost, an act of civic responsibility and a powerful language of peace. Designing means taking a stand: bringing to light an ethical vision of “making space” that rejects the standardisation of globalisation in favour of a profound compatibility with the genius loci.
Amedeo Schiattarella
Emptiness is not subtraction, but rather a relational device, a place to breathe, a climatic and social infrastructure. This concept becomes a cultural bridge to the East and allows the studio to operate consistently in distant contexts, from South Korea to Saudi Arabia. From this perspective, emptiness is also an antidote to excess: against iconic saturation and the proliferation of self-referential objects, Schiattarella proposes an architecture that creates conditions, not images.
Amedeo Schiattarella
Amedeo Schiattarella graduated in Architecture from La Sapienza University in Rome in 1969.
From the outset of his career, he distinguished himself for his independence from the cultural context of research and architecture of those years, embarking on his own experimental path inspired by the Modern Movement. This research methodology is still one of the key elements that characterise his entire body of work: a project is born from the redefinition of content and its reorganisation into a programmatic design on which architectural choices are based. At the limit of the interactions between content and form, he carries out an almost artisanal experimentation which, with the easy dismantling of parts of building components and their reassembly, establishes new architectural complexes.
He has published numerous essays and books, including “Richard Neutra, 1892-1970”, in which he raises awareness of “Emptiness” and its centrality in architecture, the pause, the silence between sounds that give meaning, balance and unity to the composition as a whole. Functional and intermediate space becomes an architectural extension designed to encourage experiences, exchanges and relationships. Seeking constant integration with the context and people, Schiattarella’s architecture reveals an identity that stems from a sense of deep interaction with the territory, buildings and traditions of the place, in search of an experimental and contemporary design outcome.
He has always combined his professional commitments with equally intense research activity, participating in national and international competitions and working to spread architectural culture in the Italian and international community.