Events Lectures

Lectures

Every semester, the College of Architecture & Environmental Design at Kent State University Florence offers a lecture series whose aim is to offer students an overview as wide and complete as possible of the current state-of-the-art in Italy and Europe. The lectures are fine-tuned with the programs developed in the studios and in the theory classes.

Lecture by Bernard Khoury.

April 2, 2019 - Palazzo Vettori, Via Cavour 26, Florence

Bernard Khoury of DW5 / Bernard Khoury, based in Beirut, Lebanon, will be at Palazzo Vettori presenting recent works by his office on Tuesday April 9 at 7 pm. His lecture, titled “Toxic Grounds”, will be introduced by prof. Marco Brizzi. Spring 2019, lecture by Bernard Khoury.Bernard Khoury / DW5, B018 (© DW5 Bernard Khoury). Spring [...]

Lecture by Casper Mork-Ulnes.

February 26, 2019 - Palazzo Vettori, Via Cavour 26, Florence

Casper Mork-Ulnes, principal at Mork-Ulnes Architects with offices in San Francisco and in Oslo, will lecture on Tuesday February 26 at Palazzo Vettori. His lecture, titled “Eight Houses in the Landscape”, will be introduced by prof. Andrea Ponsi. With offices in San Francisco and Oslo, Mork-Ulnes Architects approaches projects with both Scandinavian practicality and Northern California’s [...]

Lecture by Clara Murado.

February 19, 2019 - Palazzo Vettori, Via Cavour 26, Florence

Clara Murado, founding partner at Murado & Elvira in Madrid, Spain, will lecture on Tuesday February 19 at Palazzo Vettori. Her lecture, titled “Reading Spaces”, will be introduced by prof. Andrea Ponsi. Murado & Elvira is a Madrid-based multidisciplinary office founded by Juan Elvira and Clara Murado in 2003 dedicated to innovative architecture and interior [...]

Lecture by Adolfo Natalini.

January 29, 2019 - palazzo Vettori, Via Cavour 26, Florence

Adolfo Natalini will lecture on Tuesday January 29 at Palazzo Vettori. Marco Brizzi will introduce him. Adolfo Natalini is an Italian architect, author and designer, who was born in Pistoia, in 1941. After his experience as a painter, Natalini graduated in architecture in Florence in 1966 and founded Superstudio (with Cristiano Toraldo di Francia, Gian […]

Lecture by Adrian Blanchard.

January 24, 2019 - palazzo Vettori, Via Cavour 26, Florence

Adrian Blanchard, architect at Natalini Architetti in Florence, will be at Palazzo Vettori on Thursday January 24, 2019 offering a special lecture, part of the program of the Architecture studios. The lecture is titled “A Brief History of Touching the Earth Lightly”. Born in Pontefract, England in 1954, he has been with Natalini Architects in […]

Lecture by Davide Tommaso Ferrando.

October 30, 2018 - Palazzo Vettori, Via Cavour 26, Florence

Davide Tommaso Ferrando, architecture researcher and critic, will be at Palazzo Vettori on Tuesday October 30, 2018 lecturing on “Architecture into the Universe of Social Media”, as part of the “Theories of Architecture” course directed by Marco Brizzi. M.Arch in Advanced Architectural Design at ETSA Madrid and Ph.D in Architecture and Building Design at Politecnico […]

Lecture by Camillo Botticini.

October 30, 2018 - Palazzo Vettori, Via Cavour 26, Florence

Camillo Botticini, founding partner at ARW, based in Brescia, will lecture on Tuesday October 30 at Palazzo Vettori. Marco Brizzi will introduce his presentation. Camillo Botticini is currently professor at UEL University of East London. He taught architectural design at the Universidad de Navarra in Pamplona, at IUAV in Venice and at the Milan Polytechnic, [...]

Lecture by Elisa Cristiana Cattaneo.

October 23, 2018 - Palazzo Vettori, Via Cavour 26, Florence

Elisa Cristiana Cattaneo, scholar in Landscape Urbanism, will be at Palazzo Vettori on Tuesday October 23, 2018 lecturing on “Loaded Void. Falling Modernism, Arising Landscape Urbanism”, as part of the “Theories of Architecture” course directed by Marco Brizzi. Elisa Cristiana Cattaneo researches experimental ecological design and its theoretical implications, to generate new territories of imagination. […]

Lecture by Paolo Brescia.

October 23, 2018 - Palazzo Vettori, Via Cavour 26, Florence

Paolo Brescia, founding partner at OBR Open Building Research, based in Milan, will lecture on Tuesday October 23 at Palazzo Vettori. Paola Giaconia will introduce his presentation. OBR Open Building Research was established by Paolo Brescia and Tommaso Principi in 2000 to investigate new ways of contemporary living, creating a design network between Genoa, Milan, [...]

Lecture by Gabriele Mastrigli.

October 2, 2018 - Palazzo Vettori, Via Cavour 26, Florence

Architect and critic Gabriele Mastrigli, professor of “Theory and Design” at University of Camerino, will be our guest at Palazzo Vettori on Tuesday October 2, 2018. He will deliver a lecture, titled “Archive S, M, L, XL”, as part of the “Theories of Architecture” course directed by Marco Brizzi. Gabriele Mastrigli is an architect and […]