25 Oct 2025

TOUR: Italian Language Bilingual Tour of Taglietti: Life in Design

TOUR: Italian Language Bilingual Tour of Taglietti: Life in Design

📅 Saturday 25 October

🕚 1pm

🎫 Pay What You Want pricing (+bf)


Please note: This event will be a repeat of our sold out tour from July

Image caption - Franca and Enrico Taglietti in Piazza San Marco Venezia, 1983, Provided by Taglietti Archive

Parli Italiano? Join this exhibition tour in Italian of Taglietti: Life in Design.

Explore the life and career of acclaimed architect, Enrico Taglietti, in an Italian language tour of Taglietti: A life in Design. 

Taglietti made a major contribution to architecture and design in Canberra with his idiosyncratic buildings of atmosphere and light.

Born in Milan in 1926, the architect and his wife, Franca, chose to live in Canberra after visiting in the 1950s. Unlike others who saw empty sheep paddocks, he saw the new city of Canberra brimming with potential for a creative built environment. Taglietti went on to design many domestic and public buildings in Canberra.

Join Italian teacher Gabriella Quadraccia, who will animate Taglietti’s life and work through Italian, the language of his training and birth country.


Tour in lingua italiana: Taglietti: Una vita per il Design

25 Ottobre 2025

13.00-14:00

Parli Italiano? Partecipa al tour in italiano della mostra Taglietti: Una vita per il Design.

Esplora la vita e la carriera del rinomato architetto Enrico Taglietti e sua moglie Franca. Dagli anni '50 in poi, Taglietti ha contribuito significativamente al design di Canberra con i suoi edifici idiosincratici di atmosfera e luce.

La prof.ssa Gabriella Quadraccia sarà la tua guida in un tour che animerà la vita e il lavoro di Taglietti in italiano, la lingua della sua formazione e del suo paese natio.

TOUR: Italian Language Bilingual Tour of Taglietti: Life in Design

📅 Saturday 25 October

🕚 1pm

🎫 Pay What You Want pricing (+bf)


Please note: This event will be a repeat of our sold out tour from July

Image caption - Franca and Enrico Taglietti in Piazza San Marco Venezia, 1983, Provided by Taglietti Archive