Crossed Glances: Architecture and Criticism astride Geographies | Keynote lecture by Prof. Paolo Scrivano

II International Colloquium criticism. media. memory

Transatlantic Dialogues in Architecture

Taking the Atlantic Ocean as a methodological cut-out and metaphorical territory, Prof. Paolo Scrivano will reflect on the transnational nature of architectural criticism, as well as on the mechanisms of mediation able to create networks of contact and exchange between critics, architects and other actors involved in the debate on architecture and the city.

Paolo Scrivano is Associate Professor of the History of Architecture at the Politecnico di Milano and co-coordinator of the Mapping Architectural Criticism scientific network. He holds a PhD in the History of Architecture from the Politecnico di Torino and has taught at the University of Toronto, Boston University and Xi’an Jiaotong University-Liverpool. He is the author of several publications on 20th century architecture, including the volumes Storia di un’idea di architettura moderna. Henry-Russell Hitchcock e l’International Style (2001), Olivetti Builds: Modern Architecture in Ivrea (2001, as co-author), and Building Transatlantic Italy: Architectural Dialogues with Postwar America (2013). He has also received several grants from institutions such as the Canadian Centre for Architecture, the Centre for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Australian Research Council.

This event is supported by national funds through FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., Project UIDB/04041/2020 (https://doi.org/10.54499/UIDB/04041/2020) — Arnaldo Araújo Research Center