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Lecture by Leopoldo Villardi (Architectural Record)

Leopoldo Villardi, architect and managing editor at Architectural Record magazine, will lecture on Tuesday 28 January 2025 at 5 pm at Kent State University Florence CAED. His lecture, titled On the Record, will be introduced by prof. Paola Giaconia.

Leopoldo Villardi’s lecture will explore the essentials of architectural publishing, offering insights into exclusivity, pitching editors, and the production process of a monthly magazine. The talk will delve into the history of the magazine — one of the most prominent and long-standing architecture magazines in the world — and offer valuable insights for students preparing to enter the profession, highlighting how publishing can enhance professional credibility and unlock new opportunities, particularly for young professionals and small practices.

Leopoldo Villardi is a Brooklyn-based writer and managing editor at Architectural Record. He oversees the magazine’s residential coverage—including the annual issue of Record Houses—and the Design Vanguard award, an accolade intended to identify and celebrate young talent within the profession. Leo joined Record in 2022 after nearly a decade of work as a historian and researcher—he has contributed to several architecture books, co-authored Between Memory and Invention with former dean of the Yale School of Architecture Robert A. M. Stern, and is a New York State Council on the Arts grant recipient. Trained as an architect, Leo holds a master’s degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation and a bachelor of architecture from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s School of Architecture. Outside of Architectural Record, his writings have appeared in Panteon, Faktur, Log, the New York Review of Architecture.
www.architecturalrecord.com