SET Architects on Winning the Bologna Shoah Memorial Competition and New Generations Festival
At the fourth New Generations Festival held in Rome, SET Architects, comprising Onorato di Manno, Lorenzo Catena, and Andrea Tanci, engaged in discussions on Urban Vocabulary & Public Space and Digital Infrastructure. Founded in 2013 by Gianpiero Venturini, the festival served as a platform for innovative ideas. SET collaborated with mintLIST, represented by Giulia Milza and Maria Azzurra Rossi, to create Press Box, a temporary installation functioning as a press office. The collective, recognized for winning the Memoriale per la Shoah competition in Bologna, led by Peter Eisenman, has been active since 2015. They are also focused on revitalizing the Roma Sud–Roma Est tramway, utilizing lightweight materials to construct Press Box within six hours.
Key facts
- SET Architects consists of Onorato di Manno, Lorenzo Catena, and Andrea Tanci.
- The New Generations Festival's fourth edition was held in Rome, after previous editions in Milan, Florence, and Genoa.
- The festival was founded in 2013 by Gianpiero Venturini of Itinerant Office.
- SET created the Press Box installation for the festival in collaboration with mintLIST.
- SET won the competition for the Memoriale per la Shoah in Bologna, with a jury chaired by Peter Eisenman.
- The competition had 300 international proposals; only three advanced to the second phase.
- The memorial is on a disused lot owned by RFI (Gruppo Ferrovie dello Stato).
- SET is working on a project to reactivate the Roma Sud–Roma Est tramway.
- Press Box was assembled in six hours using lightweight metal profiles and plaster mesh.
- SET defines their work as essentiality, collectivity, contamination.
Entities
Artists
- Onorato di Manno
- Lorenzo Catena
- Andrea Tanci
- Gianpiero Venturini
- Giulia Milza
- Maria Azzurra Rossi
- Peter Eisenman
Institutions
- SET Architects
- New Generations Festival
- Itinerant Office
- mintLIST
- Ordine degli Architetti di Bologna
- Comunità Ebraica di Bologna
- RFI (Gruppo Ferrovie dello Stato)
- Labics
- King Roselli
- Artribune
Locations
- Rome
- Italy
- Milan
- Florence
- Genoa
- Bologna