The Bruno Zevi Foundation

As listed below, the Foundation intends to undertake various forms of action in order to attain these objectives.

– To open the library and archives (an ordered and accessible repository of various materials including books, magazines, photographs) to scholars and to the general public. •To organise and promote conferences, lectures, seminars and other cultural events, also in collaboration with other scientific and cultural institutions.

– To promote and operate professional training courses in sectors falling within its own purview.

– To set up an international prize for architecture, city planning and landscape architecture, also in collaboration with other scientific and cultural institutions based in Italy and elsewhere. Excluding already established figures, the prize will try to identify professionals working in terms of organic, expressionist, nonformal and deconstructivist parameters and rejecting any canons and theories other than those of existential experience and the right to the city.

– To provide grants and research contracts for university students or graduates interested in pursuing their studies in architecture, city planning and landscape architecture in Italy or other countries.

– To promote and disseminate studies, research and projects in the fields of architecture, city planning and landscape architecture. –

To promote and undertake productions, publications and distributions of books, articles, audiovisual and electronic material, and other items falling within the scope of its institutional aims.

– To take part in such initiatives organised by other public or private-sector bodies as may facilitate the achievement of its own institutional aims.

– To assist in setting up foundations, associations, consortiums and other collective bodies pursuing aims similar to its own.

– To undertake whatever forms of supplementary or contributory activity that may have a bearing on the attainment of its own institutional aims.