Wikipedia Page about Vittorio Giorgini

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Giorgini Exposition, Pisa Italy, December 2011

Marco del Francia

Preview or download all of Nino's photos from the Pisa Exhibition in December, 2011

Vittorio presiding over alabaster shell models

Caroline Gallois

Vittorio's daugher Lila

Lila's sons

Saldarini House at Baratti

Sketches for the House at Baratti

Vittorio Giorgini Architect - New Show by Marco Del Francia

TOSCANA ARCHITECTS

VITTORIO GIORGINI ARCHITETTO

Spazio espositivo SOPRA LE LOGGE, via degli Uffizi PISA

Inaugurazione

Giovedì 10 novembre 2011- ore 17,00

dal 10 novembre al 10 dicembre 2011

Orari di apertura:

dal lunedì al venerdì dalle 16,00 alle 19,30

sabato dalle 10,00 alle 13,00 e dalle 16,00 alle 19,30

domenica dalle 10,00 alle 13,00

curatore/Marco Del Francia
progetto allestimento/Nicola Bellofatto
www.toscanaarchitects.it
SPAZIO ESPOSITIVO SOPRA LE LOGGE
ente promotore/Comune di Pisa
direttore artistico/Roberto Pasqualetti  
responsabile organizzazione e gestione/Mafalda Inguscio (Ufficio Cerimoniale)
responsabile comunicazione/Carla Musetti   (Ufficio Stampa)
responsabile web/Sergio Piane (Ufficio di Gabinetto del Sindaco)
COMITATO D’ONORE
Presidente Regione Toscana/Enrico Rossi 
Prefetto di Pisa/ Antonio De Bonis
Sindaco di Pisa/ Marco Filippeschi
Rettore Università di Pisa/ Massimo Maria Augello
Direttore Scuola Superiore di Studi e Perfezionamento Sant’Anna//Maria Chiara Carrozza
Direttore Scuola Normale Superiore/ Fabio Beltram

Liberty Project, Liberty New York

Kathy Boyko, Vittorio's wife during the time I studied with him, has found me through this blog and made contact, sending me some images from Vittorio's Liberty Project, a complex shell structure outside the town of Liberty, in upstate New York, and a great photo of Vittorio climbing a sailboat mast.  I'm adding a few photos I shot when I visited the project, I believe it was in Summer 1978.

CLICK HERE to see more photos of the Liberty Shell in construction:

Roosevelt Island Project - 1975



Model from West

Plan of North Tower, parking structure, from East





Early in Vittorio's career at Pratt Institute, Sam Gordon, Lisa Elfenbein and Michael Thompson worked with Vittorio on a Project for Roosevelt Island.  Our project never reached completion, but perhaps formed a foundation for the work of others to come later.  Here it is in drawing and model form, published here for the first time, with great respect and admiration for our teacher, Vittorio Giorgini.

Sam Lisa and Michael





  Michael and Vittorio photographing the Roosevelt Island Project model.  Please CLICK HERE to see additional photos:

STUDENT WORK

Studying under Vittorio was the best thing I could have done. Lost in the hysteria of Deconstructivist era, or Achitalkture, as Vittorio liked to refer to this dogma of design, I didn't know what I was getting into when signing up for his class. I didn't sign up for my classes soon enough, and all the Columbia and Cooper Union type professors were taken up. Who should I choose? I recall seeing really "cool" images as far as Vittorio's work, so I decided to give it a shot. Well, day 1 of Vittorio, I learned that it was all about learning how to walk before you can run. Around 2 years ago, I began studying Brazilian Jiu Jitsu; something I have become passionate about. In visiting and shopping around a few Dojos, I recall seeing a sign at one school saying, "Check your egos at the door". Basically, the intent of the sign was to state that no one is superior to anyone else and that we are all here to learn; something so very true in Vittorio's class. It was refreshing and inspiring when taking Vittorio's class, because you only gained his respect through hard work. I recall other professors who during a critique would favor one student's work over another, because that student was better able at VERBALLY conveying his or her concept. What sort of nonsense is this? If I could have done it differently, I would have cut all the fat out of my curriculum and I would have taken Vittorio for all my years of design studio. I learned so much worthwhile information from him that I find very applicable in the real world. Sadly, with the very expensive Pratt tuition, could you believe Vittorio was the first person who truly taught me how to layout a floor plan and how to relate that plan to its section? As Vittorio would say, "Watta Peety" (What a pitty) Let's all try to keep his legacy going!

some bad photos of some good friends

The party at Sam's for Vittorio. Mar 19, 2010 Thanks to everyone for their stories about Vittorio. Maybe we should do this once every year!