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 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 […]

Lecture by Gianluca Peluffo.

September 25, 2018 - Palazzo Vettori, Via Cavour 26, Florence

Architect Gianluca Peluffo www.peluffoandpartners.com will be our guest at Palazzo Vettori on Tuesday September 25, 2018. He will deliver a lecture, titled “Blessed are those who have an identity”, as part of the “Theories of Architecture” course directed by Marco Brizzi. Founder of Gianluca Peluffo & Partners Architecture in 2017 and previously founding partner of […]

Lecture by Carsten Primdahl.

April 17, 2018 - Palazzo Vettori, Via Cavour 26, Florence

Carsten Primdahl, founding partner at CEBRA, based in Aarhus, will lecture on Tuesday April 17 at Palazzo Vettori. Paola Giaconia will introduce his presentation. CEBRA was founded in 2001 by the architects Mikkel Frost, Carsten Primdahl and Kolja Nielsen. In April 2017, architect MAA Mikkel Hallundbæk Schlesinger entered the group of partners. Based in Aarhus [...]

Lecture by Jules Coke.

April 10, 2018 - Palazzo Vettori, Via Cavour 26, Florence

Jules Coke, co-founder and CEO at Squint/Opera based in London, will lecture on Tuesday April 10 at Palazzo Vettori. Marco Brizzi will introduce his presentation. Squint/Opera are a creative company, a large and talented team crafting extraordinary and unique work across many disciplines – from video content and animation, to interactive exhibitions, branding, websites, design, [...]

Lecture by Ludovica Di Falco.

February 27, 2018 - Palazzo Vettori, Via Cavour 26, Florence

Ludovica Di Falco, director at SCAPE based in Paris, France and Rome, Italy, will lecture on Tuesday February 27 at Palazzo Vettori. Paola Giaconia will introduce her presentation. The word SCAPE refers to a broad notion of landscape, a point of view ranging from the near prospect as far as the horizon. The basis of [...]

Lecture by Maria Claudia Clemente.

February 6, 2018 - Palazzo Vettori, Via Cavour 26, Florence

Maria Claudia Clemente, founding partner at Labics in Rome, Italy, will lecture on Tuesday February 6 at Palazzo Vettori. Marzo Brizzi will introduce her presentation. Based in Rome, Labics is an architectural and urban planning practice founded in 2002 by Maria Claudia Clemente and Francesco Isidori. The name of the practice – Labics - expresses the [...]