City Talks: Perugia’s Rocca Paolina
Rocca Paolina in Perugia, Italy was constructed in the mid 16th century as a fortress and now serves as a cultural hub.
City Talks: Perugia’s Rocca Paolina takes place on 16 April at City Gallery, Wellington.
The next in the City Talks series is a talk from architect Philippa Newman. She explores a history of Rocca Paolina – a fortress contructed in the mid 16th century – in Perugia in the Umbria region of central Italy and asks why Umbrians insist on eating unsalted bread.
This talk explores institutional and political power in the construction and redefinition of personal and civic spaces and ritual.
Philippa Newman has spent the last 28 years living in Europe, mostly in the Umbria region of Italy. She graduated from Auckland University School of Architecture and worked with Rewi Thompson after graduation before travelling overseas.
Since returning to New Zealand, Pip now works with students at Unitec in the BAS course as well as first year students in the Fabrication Studio in the AUT Spatial Design course, passing on her knowledge of architecture to the next generation of architects.
Pip believes that architecture is the study and refining of biology and physics, material and necessity and poetry, and the human inter-relationship with all these elements.
Free entry. The talk begins at 6pm followed by refreshments.