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The ARCHISTORIES of the Technology Library - Architecture present:
Archives Night
7 June 2024 | 8-10 p.m.
Palazzo San Clemente, Via Micheli 2, Florence.
Programme:
7-8 p.m. (by reservation. Write to eventibibarc@sba.unifi.it)
- Palazzo San Clemente unveiled.
Guided tour of the palace with Emanuela Ferretti, University of Florence - Readings on the terrace: Palazzo San Clemente yesterday and today.
Edited by the Library
8-10 p.m. (visits every hour, no need for reservations)
- Around the Santissima Annunziata: the urban evolution of Palazzo San Clemente area.
A journey through ancient, rare books and historical cartography with Giuseppina Carla Romby, University of Florence; - The experimental film research cabinet of the Faculty of Architecture in Florence.
Screening of the video made by the Library in collaboration with the Multimedia Laboratory, University of Florence; - Palazzo San Clemente: from stately residence to space for the city.
Guided tour of the exhibition curated by the Library.
Passion for Palazzo San Clemente, home to the Library of Architecture and the architects' archives since 1966, unfolds through a tour of antique books, rare books, historical cartography and archival records, and guided tours of the palace, which testify to its transition from a stately residence to a space for the city.The present Palazzo San Clemente is a grandiose seventeenth-century complex, built as a suburban villa on the older building, which was radically transformed with its appurtenant spaces by Felice Gamberai to a design by Gherardo Silvani around the middle of the century. The building over the years underwent a series of remodeling and restoration work until 1967, when it was purchased by the University of Florence to make it home to the Library and some courses of the Faculty of Architecture.
Palazzo San Clemente: from stately residence to space for the city
Exhibition curated by the Technology Library - Architecture
7 -28 June 2024 | 8:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. | Palazzo San Clemente
The exhibition features a selection of books, archival and photographic documentation testifying to the history and use of Palazzo San Clemente and its garden since 1966, the date of the relocation of the Library's headquarters and some courses of the Faculty of Architecture.
"For beauty, for study and for pleasure" : strolling through Palazzo San Clemente and the Botanical Garden
with Carlo Alberto Garzonio, University of Florence and Giuseppina Carla Romby, University of Florence
- 11 June 2024 | 5 p.m. meeting inside the entrance to Palazzo San Clemente
- 13 June 2024 | 5 p.m. meeting inside the entrance to Palazzo San Clemente
To participate, reservations must be made by writing to eventibibarc@sba.unifi.it.
Rounding out the series of events is an itinerary to discover the "Giardino dei Semplici" founded in 1545 by Cosimo I de Medici, the third largest botanical garden in the world. It continues with a visit to the Garden of Palazzo San Clemente built in the mid-sixteenth century by Luigi da Toledo and the Stables, which in the late 1960s became the headquarters of the Institute of Monument Restoration founded by Piero Sanpaolesi.