Kent State University, Florence Program | College of Architecture & Environmental Design
“The Kent State Forum on the City: BERLIN” book -edited by Giovanni Damiani, Thilo Folkerts and Paola Giaconia– has just been released by the publishers at dpr-barcelona! The volume collects the contributions to the Kent State Forum on the City: BERLIN which, held at KSU Florence in Fall 2013, considered different aspects of the urban, architectural and…
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Nanne de Ru, co-founder with Charles Bessard of Powerhouse Company, with branches in Rotterdam, Copenhagen and Beijing, will be at Palazzo Cerchi on Tuesday April 14, 2015 presenting recent works by his office. Andrea Ponsi will introduce his lecture. Nanne de Ru is a co-founder of Powerhouse Company and the director of The Berlage Center…
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Ricardo Flores, co-founder with Eva Prats of Flores & Prats Arquitectos in Barcelona, Spain, will be at Palazzo Cerchi on Tuesday March 31, 2015 presenting recent works by his office. Paola Giaconia will introduce his lecture. The studio of Flores & Prats Arquitectos is dedicated to confronting theory and academic practice with the design and construction…
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On Thursday March 19, 2015 the students made a final presentation of the works they produced in the course of the LOOK AT ME NOW! photography and video workshops in the lecture hall at Palazzo Cerchi. Antonio Godoli, Director of the Architecture Department at the Uffizi, was invited to attend the presentations. Marco Brizzi, professor of the “Video,…
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The week after midterm reviews (March 16 – 19, 2015), students enrolled in the Architecture and in the Interior Design programs at Kent State University in Florence will attend the first edition of the LOOK AT ME NOW! workshops. Instructors are two architects, photographers and video makers who are especially talented in portraying contemporary architecture…
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Filippo Romano, documentary and architecture photographer will be at Palazzo Cerchi presenting his recent works on Tuesday March 3, 2015. The lecture will be introduced by Guido Incerti. Filippo Romano studied documentary photography attending the Full-time Program at the International Center of Photography (I.C.P.) in New York. His works mostly deal with cities and urban dwellers.…
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The Spring 2015 public event series at Kent State University, Florence Program will kick off on Tuesday February 10. Paolo Brescia and Tommaso Principi, principals and founding partners at OBR, Milan / London, will be our guests for a lecture on their recent projects, introduced by Marco Brizzi. OBR Open Building Research was established by Paolo Brescia…
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Architecture students worked on a very challenging studio assignment during the Fall semester. They were asked to design a new exit to the Uffizi Gallery, a longstanding necessity that saw the launch of an international competition in 1998 to propose a solution. Several renowned architects participated, including Norman Foster, Hans Hollein, and Arata Isozaki, whose…
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