Kent State University, Florence Program | College of Architecture & Environmental Design
Stefano Pujatti, founder and principal at ElasticoSPA in Turin, Italy, will lecture on Tuesday April 11 at Palazzo Vettori. Marzo Brizzi will introduce him. For ElasticoSPA design is science-fiction rather than just a science. It’s a balance between form and function, it’s innovation and realism, it means jumping forward keeping in mind what’s behind. ElasticoSPA…
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Fuensanta Nieto, founding partner at Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos in Madrid, will be at Palazzo Vettori on Tuesday April 4, 2017 presenting recent works by her office. Paola Giaconia will introduce her lecture. Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos was founded in 1985 by Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano and has offices in Madrid and Berlin. Along with being…
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The week after midterm reviews (March 20 – 23, 2017), students enrolled in the Architecture and in the Interior Design programs at Kent State University in Florence will attend the third 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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David Trottin, founding partner at PÉRIPHÉRIQUES MARIN + TROTTIN ARCHITECTES, based in Paris, will be at Palazzo Vettori on Tuesday March 7, 2017 presenting recent works by his office. Marco Brizzi will introduce his lecture. Inspired by the Dogma movement, PÉRIPHÉRIQUES ARCHITECTES structure was born in the mid 90’s from the fierce desire to go…
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Dan Dorell, principal at DORELL.GHOTMEH.TANE in Paris, will be at Palazzo Vettori on Tuesday February 7, 2017 presenting recent works by his office. Paola Giaconia will introduce his lecture. Dan Dorell is one of the three founding partners of DORELL.GHOTMEH.TANE. Dan Dorell, Lina Ghotmeh and Tsuyoshi Tane opened their office in 2006 after winning the international…
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Dan Dorell, principal at DORELL.GHOTMEH.TANE in Paris, will be at Palazzo Vettori on Tuesday February 7, 2017 presenting recent works by his office. Paola Giaconia will introduce his lecture. Dan Dorell is one of the three founding partners of DORELL.GHOTMEH.TANE. Dan Dorell, Lina Ghotmeh and Tsuyoshi Tane opened their office in 2006 after winning the international…
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Dean Mark Mistur, Gian Piero Frassinelli (Superstudio) and Gianfranco Bombaci (2a+p/a), together with KSU-F faculty Marco Brizzi and Giovanni Damiani, participated in the final reviews for the graduate architecture studio led by Paola Giaconia. The 6 students (Alex Petruso, Ashley Kerwood, Cara Welch, David Sidick, Jacob Sas, Stephen Scabora) were challenged to redefine a piece…
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On Tuesday November 29, 2016 the project Savage Architecture -an exhibition first hosted at Architectural Association in London and a book published by Black Square, both curated by Davide Sacconi- will be presented in a symposium at Kent State University in Florence. The project recounts the research at the intersection between architecture and anthropology developed…
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We are happy to announce the winners in the competition to conceive the graphic design for the Architecture and Fashion end-of-semester exhibition at Kent State University, Florence Center! The proposal by Architecture student Alex Petruso and Fashion students Emily Osburn and Michelle Park -titled Weaving Disciplines– was chosen by the jury, comprised of all the…
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Architectural historian Léa-Catherine Szacka, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Form, Theory and History, the Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO), will be at Palazzo Vettori on Tuesday November 8, 2016 lecturing on “Exhibiting The Postmodern: The 1980 Venice Architecture Biennal”, as part of the “Theories of Architecture” course directed by Marco Brizzi. Szacka holds a…
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