The volume by Annarita Briganti Gae Aulenti. Riflessioni e pensieri sull'Architetto Geniale (Cairo, 2022) is the result of studies and research in the field, in the archives and in the media, with interviews with witnesses and with those who today carry on the artistic, cultural and "genre" legacy of Gae Aulenti.

The Brilliant Architect, masculine, as she liked to call herself, the Italian who made the Musée d'Orsay in Paris and who has created many other works in Italy and abroad, the lioness, the aunt, the intellectual, the great lady. Gae Aulenti is a multifaceted personality, difficult to enclose in a single definition. Among the few women of her time who graduated from the Milan Polytechnic (she was born in 1927), she is a shining example of how it is possible to develop without ever losing the desire to love, to have a family, to explore, to create, from architecture to design, to theatre. Hers is an Italian story, with an international flavor, that everyone should know. Gaetana Emilia Aulenti has traveled all over the world to renovate it , build it, set it up, make it more beautiful. In passionate pages, the author lets us know her many faces and does so through the heritage that this great woman has left us.

The author is in dialogue with Damiano Gullì, curator for Contemporary Art and Public program at Triennale. Journalist Fiorella Minervino moderates the meeting.