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Healing Spaces

McCormick Gallery Exhibit


Aerial, bird's eye view of Il Parco del Mare - Rimini, Italy. Photo credit: Roland Halbe.
Il Parco del Mare - Rimini, Italy. Photo credit: Roland Halbe.

Date

February 04, 2026 - May 11, 2026

Location

McCormick Gallery

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Cost

FREE

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Healing Spaces invites visitors on a sensorial and conceptual journey through the work of Benedetta Tagliabue, Hon'25, – EMBT Architects, where beauty and care are understood as essential ways of inhabiting space. Architecture is presented as a living process, capable of evolving over time and caring for places, communities, and everyday life.

The exhibition unfolds as a continuous visual collage formed by vertical acrylic panels that extend along the full height of the gallery, creating a single spatial narrative. This installation brings together three EMBT projects, presented as interconnected fragments of a shared architectural landscape. Selected for their human scale and close relationship with the landscape, these works express EMBT’s vision of architecture as an extension of nature and the body, where beauty becomes a form of care that is experienced and inhabited.

The installation is enriched by interpretations developed by students from Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ through a dedicated workshop. Their collages add interpretative layers to the exhibition, reinforcing architecture as a collective and open process. Graphic vinyls placed on the floor (and gallery windows) extend the visual collage into the ground plane, reflecting drawings and symbolic diagrams from the projects and strengthening the continuity between body, space, and movement.

This exhibit opens February 4, 2026.

Date

February 04, 2026 - May 11, 2026

Location

McCormick Gallery

For More Info

communications@the-bac.edu

Cost

FREE

Categories

Events   Exhibit   McCormick Gallery Exhibit  

34th Cascieri Lecture Series featuring Benedetta Tagliabue, Hon'25, and Healing Spaces Exhibition Opening Reception

Benedetta Tagliabue, Hon'25, Co-founder and Principal architect of EMBT Architects. Photo Credit: Sergi Alcazar.

Healing Spaces
February 4, 2026
6PM | Lecture in Cascieri Hall or Virtual
7PM | Exhibit Opening Reception in McCormick Gallery

Join us for the 34th Cascieri Lecture Series featuring Benedetta Tagliabue, Hon'25. Healing Spaces explores how architecture can nurture well-being, transforming buildings and cities into places of comfort and belonging. By embracing renaturalization, reuse, and human-centered design, architecture redefines the city as a landscape of care, where nature and the built environment intertwine to cultivate warmth and connection within the urban fabric.

Following the lecture, please stay for the Healing Spaces exhibit opening reception at 7PM in McCormick Gallery showcasing the work of EMBT Architects, featuring remarks by President Mahesh Daas and Benedetta Tagliabue, Hon'25,—marking a distinguished celebration of her work and contributions.

Kalida Sant Pau Centre - Barcelona, Spain. Photo Credit: Lluc Miralles.
Kalida Sant Pau Centre - Barcelona, Spain. Photo Credit: Lluc Miralles.
Naples Underground Central Station - Naples, Italy. Photo Credit: Roland Halbe.
Naples Underground Central Station - Naples, Italy. Photo Credit: Roland Halbe.
San Giacomo Apostolo Church and Parish Complex - Ferrara, Italy. Photo Credit: Roland Halbe.
San Giacomo Apostolo Church and Parish Complex - Ferrara, Italy. Photo Credit: Roland Halbe.
Renewal of Century Square in East Nanjing Road - Shanghai, China. Photo Credit: Zhu Runzi.
Renewal of Century Square in East Nanjing Road - Shanghai, China. Photo Credit: Zhu Runzi.