BEYOND MEDIA is one of the main events worldwide dedicated to the most current visions on contemporary architecture and on the outcomes of the intense relations which exist between architecture and the media.

Curated by Marco Brizzi and organized by Image www.image-web.org, the festival takes place in Florence since 1997. It explores the relations that exist between architecture -the protagonist of the construction of cultural fabric, of new economic scenarios and innovation processes- and the media which, in turn, develop a series of fields of intervention, of skills, of research ambits around architecture.

Marco Brizzi teaches at California State University in Florence, at the Faculty of Architecture in Ferrara, at NABA in Milan. He gives lectures on topics related to the history and theory of architecture and to the relationship between technolgical innovations and the project; he participates in conferences and symposia and promotes cultural events in Italy and abroad. He is director fo ARCH’IT www.architettura.it, since 1995 the first and one of the most widely read Italian digital magazine on architecture. He is advisor for the Mies van der Rohe Award and, as director of ARCH’IT, he was finalist for the Golden Medal to criticism awarded by the Triennale di Milano. He organizes events devoted to the promotion of contemporary architecture and to the enhancement of digital technologies. He is founder and president of Image www.image-web.org, a company whose aims are enhancing the design discourse by means of a wider knowledge of media issues in architecture.

Mission of the BEYOND MEDIA festival is enhancing and qualifying the architectural discourse in all of its expressions. In particular it aims at promoting the emergence of a new agenda for contemporary architecture by means of a more widespread awareness of the role of the media of communication in the professional as well as in the didactic field. Architects, video authors, experts in the field of communication, creatives, scholars, and teachers are offered the opportunity to meet, observe and discuss the most significant paths contemporary architecture is following.

An international selection of architecture videos, talks, meetings and workshops with the protagonists of the international debate as well as architecture exhibitions in theme with the festival's topic compose the festival's program which is enriched every year with new events.

The festival is promoted by PARC (General Directorate for Landscape quality and protection, Contemporary Architecture and Art) of the Italian Ministry of Culture, by the Municipality of Florence, and by the University of Florence, in cooperation with Stazione Leopolda www.stazione-leopolda.com, venue of the events.

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Image www.image-web.org