Translation and Misunderstanding//Truth and Falsehood | Workshop by Paolo Scrivano

Translation and Misunderstanding //

Truth and Falsehood

Workshop by Prof. Paolo Scrivano

14^th november 2025 | 9:30 AM | ESAP Auditorium

Coordinated by Paolo Scrivano, the workshop Translation and Misunderstanding aims to create an experimental space in which the concept of translation is explored from an interdisciplinary perspective. Students of architecture, fine arts, visual arts, design, cinema and theatre will be challenged to combine methodological tools, languages and translation strategies to establish a shared foundation around this concept, which functions as a central mechanism of development.

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. Prof. Scrivano is currently a visiting scholar at the CEAA-ESAP.

This event is supported by national funds through FCT –Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., project UID/04041/2025 — Arnaldo Araújo Research Center