Stefano Boeri on Triennale Presidency, Mars Forest City, and Italy's Urban Future

Stefano Boeri, newly appointed president of Fondazione La Triennale di Milano, outlines his vision for the institution as a platform where architecture serves as a lens for all creative disciplines. He emphasizes maintaining Triennale's historical vocation while updating it for contemporary times, and declines to discuss future Scientific Committee appointments. Boeri advocates for three urgent actions in Italy: strategic plans for 14 metropolitan areas, a 'Ministry of Woods and Wood' to valorize forests and support related industries, and a law incentivizing building replacement to address 4 million obsolete homes. He identifies Rome as a city to watch for 2030, needing a unifying vision. At Tongji University's Future City Lab in Shanghai, Boeri leads a project imagining a 'forest city for Mars 2117,' developed with the Italian and Chinese space agencies, to be presented at Milan's Fuorisalone in April 2018. For Milano Arch Week, events will include sessions at Politecnico di Milano, Fondazione Feltrinelli, and Triennale, plus VespArch tours.