Mantovarchitettura / Uno

This is the first issue of a publication documenting the architecture festival organised by faculty of the Polo territoriale di Mantova of the Politecnico di Milano. From 2012 to 2014, a series of conferences, workshops, exhibitions, and lessons took place at the school, attended by internationally renowned architects and designers such as Tadao Ando, João Luís Carrilho da Graça, Gonçalo Byrne, and Alberto Campo Baeza. These occasions for stimulating and innovative design research, which transpired in continuous dialogue with the city and surrounding environment, have given rise to thought-provoking results, collective ways of working, and recognition of necessary hierarchies.