Ludovico Centis will give a lecture titled “ Esplorazioni monumentali” at Università IUAV di Venezia
November 16, 2022, 2.00 PM – 4.30 PM
Cotonificio di Santa Marta
Venice – Italy
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Ludovico Centis will take part to "America Deserta? A Conversation", a symposium organized by Francesco Marullo supported by the UIC Institute for the Humanities in collaboration with the UIC School of Architecture.
October 6, 2022, 9.00 AM – 5.30 PM
UIC School of Architecture
1100 Architecture + Design Studios
845 West Harrison Street
Chicago, IL 60607 – U.S.A.
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Ludovico Centis will moderate a panel discussion featuring Florencia Rodriguez (UIC School of Architecture) and Michelangelo Sabatino (IIT’s College of Architecture) in occasion of the book launch of "The lake of Venice", co-written by Lorenzo Fabian and Ludovico Centis. Event organized in collaboration with Chicago Architecture Biennial and Italian Institute of Culture of Chicago.
October 5, 2022, 6.00 PM – 7.00 PM
Italian Institute of Culture of Chicago
500 N Michigan Ave, Suite 1450
Chicago, IL 60611 – U.S.A.
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Ludovico Centis will take part as moderator to the Exchange Drawing Panel at the “Young European Architecture Happening” hosted in the Kulturfabrik in Esch-sur-Alzette.
April 16, 2022, 3.30 PM – 5.30 PM
Kulturfabrik
Esch-sur-Alzette – Luxembourg.
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Ludovico Centis will give a lecture titled “ Off the beaten track. Histories of Peter Reyner Banham” at Università IUAV di Venezia
April 6, 2022, 3.00 PM – 5.00 PM
Cotonificio di Santa Marta
Venice – Italy
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Ludovico Centis will take part to the "Infrastructure and mobility" panel in the frame of the Histories of Urban Design Conference in Zürich jointly organized by ETH Zürich Department of Architecture and TUDelft Department of Architecture.
November 16, 2021, 3.00 PM – 5.30 PM
ETH Zürich
Hoenggerberg Campus
HIT Building
Zürich – Switzerland
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Ludovico Centis will give a lecture titled “ Of centuriations, bridges and markers” at the University of Virginia School of Architecture.
October 14 , 2021, 11.00 AM – 1.00 PM
University of Virginia School of Architecture
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Ludovico Centis will take part to the "Monumentality and Ephemerality in Modern Europe" panel in the frame of the 2021 European Architectural History Network Conference in Edinburgh.
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3.15 PM to 6.00 PM
The University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh College of Art
74 Lauriston Place
Edinburgh – U.K.
Ludovico Centis has been invited to take part to "20 years, 21 Banham Fellows", the 20th anniversary of Banham Fellowship at the University at Buffalo. The symposium includes presentations and panel discussions by the School’s Banham Fellows – from 2000 to present – to both reflect and speculate on the fellowship as alternative forms of pedagogy and practice, through which design strategies, historical critiques, and disciplinary discourse are further problematized, enmeshed, and illuminated.
The symposium will be accessible through Zoom registering at this page
March 6, 2021, 1.00 PM to 5.30 PM
Ludovico Centis has been invited to take part to the 2020 New Generations Festival. Centis will take part to the ‘City & Responsibility’ panel. The panel will be streamed live on the New Generations website.
December 18, 2020, 11.00 AM - 1.00 PM
The research "On Reyner Banham's Tracks in the Age of Brexit" promoted and run by The Empire has been awarded a Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art Research Support Grant.
Powers of Ten - 2020, a set of three drawings that pays homage to the legendary Charles and Ray Eames’ movie, has been included in the Architectural Association Earth Gallery. The project was made to mark 50 years of Earth Day, an annual event held in support of environmental protection. All the works on display respond to the theme of Earth and human relationships.
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The National Maps, developed in the frame of The Empire's Ways of Memory. An Exploration of the Manhattan Project's Legacy research, are on show in the exhibition Hot Spots: Radioactivity and the Landscape. The exhibition scrutinizes the nuclear industry, including its everyday functions and long-term impact, with an emphasis on issues surrounding radioactive waste. The artists in Hot Spots examine this expansive subject through themes that include rendering the invisible visible, art as a tool of information disclosure and disruption, and developing the complex language necessary to communicate thousands of years into the future.
October 17, 2019 to March 21, 2020
Krannert Art Museum
West, Light Court, and Contemporary Galleries
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
500 Peabody Drive
Champaign, IL 61820 – U.S.A.
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The book "Foresturbia. A Manual for a Landscaped City", produced with OFFICE U67, is exhibited at the 2019 Oslo Architecture Triennale in the frame of The Library, hosted at the National Museum. The Manual contains a wide array of landscape and urban strategies combined with technological solutions
that should be taken into account by all decision makers, designers and citizens that will face the development of Oslo, as well as other cities located in the same climatic zone in the Northern hemisphere.
Opening September 26, 2019, 7.00 pm
September 26, 2019 to November 24, 2019
The National Museum - Architecture
Bankplassen 3
Oslo – Norway.
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They must have enjoyed building here: Reyner Banham and Buffalo is the second of a series of exhibitions initiated by Ludovico Centis / The Empire, titled Reyner Banham: A Set of Actual Tracks.
The exhibition is comprised of two types of material, drawing multiple connections in both space and time. The first has been produced by students of the School of Architecture and Planning at the University at Buffalo (UB) following from a seminar led by Ludovico Centis. The seminar reflected specifically on the innovative research and teaching agenda that Banham undertook in Buffalo between 1976 and 1980, which was characterized by extensive field research and forward-thinking subjects such as the Building Life Cycles program. The second type of material in the show is archival– selected from diverse sources, ranging from academic institutions such as the UB Archives to the private collections of Roger Conover, Bonnie Foit-Albert and Hadas Steiner. Much of this material is exhibited publicly for the first time.
Opening September 5, 2019, 5:00pm
September 5, 2019 to December 13, 2019
School of Architecture and Planning
Hayes Hall Gallery
Buffalo, NY – U.S.A.
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A parallel of ruins and landscapes is the first of a series of exhibitions initiated by Ludovico Centis / The Empire, titled Reyner Banham: A Set of Actual Tracks. A parallel of ruins and landscapes pairs two extensive fieldworks that unfolded in the past fifty years in the American West: the first by Reyner Banham, and the second by Ludovico Centis. The parallel between the two fieldworks takes place at two scales –the continental and the local one– and is made manifest through previously unpublished and unexposed materials gathered from the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles and the Architectural Association Archives in London.
Opening June 27, 2019, 7:00pm
June 27, 2019 to July 28, 2019
Campo Gallery
Via della Marrana 94
Rome – Italy
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The Empire has been selected among the participants of the 2019 Oslo Architecture Triennale , entitled “Enough: The Architecture of Degrowth”.
September 26, 2019 to November 24, 2019
The National Museum - Architecture
Bankplassen 3
Oslo – Norway.
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Ludovico Centis will teach a ten days workshop titled “Reyner Banham: A set of actual tracks” at the State University of New York – University at Buffalo that engages with the legacy of the British architectural historian Reyner Banham.
9:00am to 6:00pm
School of Architecture and Planning
217 Hayes Hall
Buffalo, NY – U.S.A.
The Empire will lead a workshop in the frame of the Citizenship Program developed by the US Pavilion at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale. The workshop will investigate the borders of Venice. I Cento Cippi di conterminazione lagunare –a set of rather ordinary markers positioned by the Venetian Republic in the years immediately prior its fall in order to define unequivocally the borders of the lagoon– will become goals of multiple individual explorations of these unstable borders subject to continuous negotiation.
10.00am to 8.00p.m.
Centro Scalzi
Cannaregio 54
Venezia - Italy
The National Maps, developed in the frame of The Empire's Ways of Memory. An Exploration of the Manhattan Project's Legacy research, are on show in the exhibition Hot Spots: Radioactivity and the Landscape, that brings together 18 international artists and art collectives who examine the environmental impact of military and industrial production and use of radioactive materials.
Press and professional preview September 6
September 7 to December 8, 2018
UB Art Gallery
North Campus
201 Center for the Arts
Buffalo, NY – U.S.A.
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Ludovico Centis has been awarded a 2018 Library Research Grant by the Getty Research Institute. Centis will spend three weeks in Los Angeles investigating the archive of the British architectural historian Reyner Banham.
The Getty Research Institute
1200 Getty Center Drive
Los Angeles, CA – U.S.A.
Ludovico Centis will give a lecture titled “An Italian Navigator” at the University of Chicago Arts.
4:15 pm to 6:15pm
Reynolds Club, McCormick Tribune Lounge
5706 S University Ave
Chicago, IL – U.S.A.
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Ludovico Centis will give a lecture titled “Die Antiquiertheit des Menschen” at the Bauhaus - Universitaet Weimar, Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism.
7:00pm to 8:00pm
Bauhaus - Universitaet Weimar
Oberlichtsaal
Geschwister-Scholl-Str.8A
Weimar – Germany
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Ludovico Centis will give a lecture titled “Transpacific Charts” at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Faculty of Architecture.
5:00pm to 6:00pm
EPFL, Faculty of Architecture - Building AAC Room 106
Route de la Sorge
Lausanne - Switzerland
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The Empire's installation "An American Temple" will be presented to the public during the opening days of the 2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial.
Press and professional preview September 14-15
September 16, 2017 to January 7, 2018
Chicago Cultural Center
78 E. Washington Street
Chicago, IL – U.S.A.
Ludovico Centis will give a lecture titled “A New Species” at the State University of New York – University at Buffalo.
6:00pm to 7:30pm
School of Architecture and Planning
403 Hayes Hall
Buffalo, NY – U.S.A.
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The Empire has been selected among the participants of the 2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial, entitled “Make New History”.
Press and professional preview September 14-15
September 16, 2017 to January 7, 2018
Chicago Cultural Center
78 E. Washington Street
Chicago, IL – U.S.A.
Ludovico Centis will take part to the “Unfinished” symposium at the Spanish Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2016.
11:00am to 6:00pm
Spanish Pavilion
Giardini della Biennale
Venezia - Italy
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Ludovico Centis will give a lecture titled “The Enduring Objects of Architecture: 10 Projects and a Plan”, at the University of Toronto - John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design.
1:00pm to 2:00pm
John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design - Room 103
230 College
Toronto - Canada
The Empire's “Hotel Ascension” design (with Jin Young Song) is among the finalists of the “Azure awards”.
6.00 pm to 11.00 pm
Evergreen Brick Works
550 Bayview Ave
Toronto - Canada
Ludovico Centis will give a lecture titled “Institutions”, at Universitaet Liechtenstein - Faculty of Architecture.
10:00 am to 11.00.am
University of Liechtenstein - Institute of Architecture and Planning
Fürst-Franz-Josef-Strasse
Vaduz - Liechtenstein
Ludovico Centis will give a presentation titled “Shanghai: the narrative construction of the metropolis” in the frame of the symposium “City Portraits: Shanghai” at Università IUAV di Venezia.
10.00 am to 6.00 pm
Università IUAV di Venezia
Palazzo Badoer – Aula Tafuri
Venezia – Italy
Ludovico Centis is going to be the first resident in 2015 of the Center for Land Use Interpretation Wendover Residence Program. Centis will spend a month researching the legacy of the Manhattan Project in the Great Salt Lake region.
CLUI Wendover
800 S
Wendover, UT – U.S.A.
Ludovico Centis will give a presentation on his editorial and teaching activity in the frame of “Editions from the discipline” at Princeton University.
5.00 pm to 8.00 pm
Princeton University School of Architecture.
Princeton, NJ – U.S.A.
Ludovico Centis will give a presentation in the frame of “Fundamental #13: Real Estate and the Housing Question panel”, part of House Housing research by Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture - Columbia University GSAPP.
10.00 am to 1.00 pm
Guggenheim Museum
Venezia - Italy
Ludovico Centis will inaugurate the exhibition “The Eternal Blast: Monuments of the Manhattan Project in the Empire State”, result of a year-long research as Banham Fellow at SUNY- University at Buffalo.
Opening 7.00 pm
May 2 – May 18, 10.00 am to 6.00 pm
Eleven Twenty Projects Gallery
1120 Main Street
Buffalo, NY – U.S.A.
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Ludovico Centis will give a lecture titled “Five gardens, two tales and a monument” at Università IUAV di Venezia, Faculty of Architecture.
10.00 am to 11.30 am
Università IUAV di Venezia
Cotonificio – Aula L
Venezia - Italy
Ludovico Centis is the winner of the 2013 Peter Reyner Banham Fellowship at State University of New York – University at Buffalo, Department of Architecture. Centis will spend two semesters teaching two design studios and developing a research on the legacy of the Manhattan Project in the State of New York.
School of Architecture and Planning
University at Buffalo – 114 Diefendorf Hall
Buffalo, NY – U.S.A.