Torino capitale dell’architettura del paesaggio
Turin, the Capital of Landscape Architecture
British artist Bruce Munro is bringing light to the feet of Uluru – the huge outcrop sacred to Australia’s aborigine population, also known as Ayers Rock – with a project originally devised in 1992 after a trip to the red desert of Australia’s Northern Territory. Fifty thousand stems topped by frosted glass spheres connected by optical fibres will light up every day at sunset for a whole year, until 31st March 2017. Prior to its appearance at the place where it was first conceived, the poetic Field of Light installation was seen in other parts of the world, such as the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, around the bio-spheres of the Eden Project in Cornwall and in Longwood Gardens, Pennsylvania. More than 2,000 professionals from all over the world – architects, agronomists, engineers, specialists from European civil services, politicians and administrators – are expected in Turin from 20 to 22 April for the 53rd World Congress of Landscape Architecture of the IFLA (International Federation of Landscape Architects). Organized by the AIAPP (Associazione Italiana di Architettura del Paesaggio), IFLA’s representative in Italy, in collaboration with the City of Turin, the meeting will aim to bring the landscape, its protection and its transformation back to the centre of cultural debate in Italy. In view of the initiative, an international charrette reserved for young landscape architects is scheduled from 16 to 19 April. They will be able to carry out exercises in planning in the Bertolla zone to the north-east of Turin, an area of naturalistic value in a regional context with the hill of Superga and its basilica visible in the background on the other side of the Po. The winning project will be announced during the congress.