Milano Arch Week 2019

After the success of past editions, Milano Arch Week returns from May 21 to 26, 2019: a week of lectures, conversations, workshops, urban tours and itineraries on the main challenges of contemporary urban transformations. As a part of the YesMilano program, it is promoted by Triennale Milano together with the Politecnico di Milano university and the City of Milan, in collaboration with the Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli and under the artistic direction of Stefano Boeri, president of Triennale Milano.

Milano Arch Week explores the future of architectures and cities through a polyphony of voices: architects, urban planners, landscape designers, scientists, emerging architects, urban planners, public personalities, and opinion leaders. Those who will take the stage during Milano Arch Week 2019 include the winners of the Pritzker Prize Rem Koolhaas and Shigeru Ban, together with such leading lights in the world of international architecture and culture as Al Borde, Ash Amin, Paola Antonelli, Assemble, Kunlé Ayademi, Saïd Berkane, Ursula Biemann, Tatiana Bilbao, Mario Botta, Andrea Branzi, Fala Atelier, Yuri Grigoryan, Kosmos, Winy Maas, Suketu Mehta, Mariana Pestana, Italo Rota, Angela Rui, Pierre Sauvêtre, Salvatore Settis, Etienne Turpin, Urbz, James Wei Ke, Eyal Weizman, Ma Yansong, Cino Zucchi, and many more.

The 2019 edition of Milano Arch Week, entitled Anthropocene and Architecture, is closely connected with the themes of the XXII Triennale di Milano Broken Nature: Design Takes on Human Survival, curated by Paola Antonelli and open to the public from March 1 to September 1, 2019. Here the issues of environmental sustainability, technological development, migration flows, and social transformations at the heart of Broken Nature are related to urban spaces and examined from an urban and architectural perspective.

Milano Arch Week investigates cities as systems of flows and networks, artifice and nature, as places continually shaped by a “contemporary plurality of subjects, individuals, and trajectories,” and as centers of material and immaterial production. Cities are places where the human species can repair its broken relationship with nature and reverse the disastrous effects of climate change.

Milano Arch Week is also an opportunity to discover hidden places in Milan. Many tours are planned, such as those of ArchiScoot—urban itineraries on a scooter along the routes. There are two itineraries this year, Marmi Milanesi discovers the buildings made of marble in Milan, with a special pit stop at the Gallerie d’Italia, and Regeneration & the City, a tour of buildings that epitomize the new urban regeneration projects of the City of Milan, from San Siro to Dergano by way of Quarto Oggiaro.

Discover Milano Arch Week program: www.milanoarchweek.eu