MEET THE CLUB

"ARCHI_BOOK_CLUB_MN" was founded on the Autumn of 2019 during my architecture studio at the UNESCO Chair in Mantua, Politecnico di Milano.
Enjoy your visit, Professor Guillermo Aranda-Mena


A really great club! meets at Teatro Sociale di Mantova, Autumn 2023




Return to Italy, Autumn 2022 





Teatro Sociale di Mantova, Winter 2019




"ARCHI_BOOK_CLUB_MN"
Book Club MN is an experimental space in which members read, interpret and visualise scientific, academic or literary texts thus we think of it as a way of 'translating' work through the mind and vision of young architects. Submissions bring passages of seminal books “to life” through sketches and artworks utilising a rich array of representation techniques. The resulting product are original pictorials of environment and scenarios never seen before... with various technical degrees and creative dimensions ...possibly not even imagined by the books' own authors! In other words, we undertook the challenge to bring textual readings into visual communication or visual language. Visual language (or visual knowledge) is a core skill that architects apply to everyday and domain communication. Their talent or ability to draw what is in mind has been put to test bringing imagination into reality and this is what visitors can enjoy in this blog. A large number of mind-maps, environments and wonderful scenes emerged out of a few hand-picked books. 

Visual language can communicate explicit or tacit knowledge... or even emotions. Visual language can be literal or abstract. Abstract interpretations are in cases more effective to communicate emotions or to instigate curiosity from the viewer ie. to further investigate the subject matter or to develop an appetite to fully read a particular book or essay.
  • A physical environment such as place, interior or spatial relationships,
  • A physical activity or particular behaviour,
  • A feeling or emotion,
  • Buildings, built-form or landscape,
  • Objects or artifacts,
  • An scenario or scenarios and
  • Ideograms or mind-maps.
Watch this space, ARCHI_BOOK_CLUB_MN will continue adding titles and thus evolving.

Best,
Dr. Guillermo Aranda-Mena
Visiting Professor of Architecture 
Politecnico di Milano, Mantua UNESCO Chair


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