The events of the Architecture Biennale continue at the Museo della Grafica, a widespread festival where architecture, innovation and sustainability come together to inspire new visions of contemporary living. Curated by the LP Association with the support of the Municipality of Pisa, every two years it transforms the city into a space for research, discussion and inspiration, open to architects, scholars, students, institutions and citizens.
The new event is on Saturday 18 October 2025, at 5.30 p.m.
Inauguration of "L'albero e la città onirica", an exhibition by Silvia Chiara Lucchesini, which presents research into painting, photography and visual perception.
The representation of trees, imaginary landscapes, upside-down cities and moons gives rise to a fascinating interpretation of themes of nature, surrealism and perception. The exhibition is part of the general theme of Nature and offers a reflection on the relationship between the built and the natural, between balance and fragility, between what man creates and what nature gives back.
Silvia Chiara Lucchesini. Born in Pisa in 1966, Lucchesini graduated in Architecture from the University of Florence and obtained a master's degree in Security Management in Rome. Her professional career spans multiple fields: from restoration and interior design to workplace safety, to the organisation of conferences in the architectural, landscape and social fields. Alongside her profession, she has cultivated a deep passion for drawing, painting and photography since she was very young, languages through which she explores her relationship with space and nature.
An artistic journey between architecture and introspection. In his small but intensely rich watercolours, the artist constructs suspended worlds, upside-down natures and cities in trees, symbols of a continuous tension between man and the environment, between the desire to build and the desire to find oneself.
The work chosen as the official image of the exhibition — a watercolour divided into twelve panels which, as if through a window, recounts the passage from the city to the tree — represents the visual synthesis of this journey: a journey from the built environment to nature, from urban noise to the silence of the forest. It is a metaphor for inner transformation, the search for balance and the need to rediscover one's authentic roots.
The photographs, about fifty in number, expand this visual narrative with landscapes, woods and perspectives that echo the atmosphere of the watercolours. In some images, such as the one taken in Marina di Vecchiano after a storm, nature appears as a threshold to “another world”, a place of contemplation and rebirth.
The tree as a symbol of self and time. For Lucchesini, trees have always represented a connection between his personal and professional life: ‘Seeing a tree outside the window is like seeing a possible future.’
The 2000 work, which depicts a city suspended on a tree, became the starting point for a long artistic journey that is now open to the public with a new awareness.
The exhibition, at the invitation of architect Massimo Del Seppia, is a journey into the sensibility of an architect who has been able to transform her design experience into artistic language, maintaining a constant dialogue with nature and with herself.
The exhibition will be open until 16 November 2025* (*admission to the exhibition is free for members of the Order of Architects).
