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In this episode of Talking Practice, host Grace La interviews Pier Vittorio Aureli, architect, educator, and co-founder of Dogma , an architecture and research-based practice in Brussels. Pier Vittorio reveals early beginnings of Dogma, which started as an academic comradery and became a professional cooperation. He expands on the reception and interpretation of his work and writing, including the contemporary challenges of housing. As an educator, Pier Vittorio discusses the influence of his teaching and its role on his writing. The conversation sheds light on the imbrication of politics,…
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Harvard Graduate School of Design · Arts & Books · English
From the world’s premier design school, Harvard GSD’s Talking Practice asks leading designers to provide an inside glimpse into what they do, why, and how they do it — exposing the ways in which their design imagination is articulated through practice.
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