Cinzia Abbate

TU Rome, Professor of Architecture

Cinzia Abbate
Stairs
Print on paper
64 x 12, 40H (B9)

Why did I invite Paolo Iacchetti?

Paolo Iacchetti understands his own work as an ongoing dialogue with painting and wrote in 1999: 

"The only possible dimension is the concrete one, not as a space of representation, but as a space of perceptual action."  

So it is with my work in architecture. 

Paolo Iacchetti
Piccoli stati 1
Oil on wood
41 x 11, 81H (B.11)
2006

Meet the Artists

  • Faculty

    Cinzia Abbate, architect, professor at Temple University Rome and co-founder, in 1992, with Carlo Vigevano of the architectural firm AeV Architetti associati, a pioneer architectural practice in the field of sustainable design. Her multidisciplinary approach to design has opened the cooperation with multifaceted groups of professional designers, economist, restorers, archaeologist, botanist, artists and craftsmen.

    Cinzia Abbate has launched and edited research that has led to international seminars, conferences and publications. The most recent include: Urban Climate Change Crossroads in collaboration with the Earth Institute at Columbia University; Frugal Architecture with the Bruno Zevi foundation; Energy efficiency of historical buildings with the MAXXI contemporary Museum and the ADSI (Italian Association of Historical Buildings), and Archeology of the Future with the Chambers of Italian and Namibia Architects.

  • Invited Artist

    Paolo Iacchetti was born in 1953 in Milan, where he lives and works. After graduating in Chemistry in 1976, he graduated from the Brera Academy in 1982.

    His first exhibition was in 1983, which was followed by numerous other projects, both personal and collective, in Italy, Germany, Switzerland and France. In the 1990s he participated in the Michetti Prize, the Biennali della Permanente in Milan, and at the Quadriennale in Rome. In the 2000s he gets attention in specific reviews on international abstract and radical art exhibiting, among others, in Asia and America. In 2011 he is at the Venice Biennale. His more recent research sees a deepening of the relationships between line and color, which he presents in reviews on specific subjects.