25/03/2026
IL CANTIERE GUARINIANO
Seminar organized by Edoardo Piccoli, Gaia Nuccio, Stefano Benedetto, Corrado Azzolini
March 31st 2026
Turin, Archivio di Stato (Piazzetta Carlo Mollino 1)
Guarino Guarini’s (1624-1683) experiments in construction, both admired and criticized by architectural culture, have elicited a sophisticated but not yet satisfying scholarly body of work. Guarini’s use of stereotomy and the “stereotomic mode” of his design-build processes have been investigated since the 1970s, and yet, even these topics deserve further research, especially regarding the relationship between theory and practice.