Seminar: Built Spaces: The Iroquois, the Romans, and the Manhattan Project

Our Fellows’ seminars are now open to the public! Fascinating topics from the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences

The February 10 seminar has moderator Jorge Otero-Pailos (Director and Professor of Historic Preservation at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation) in conversation with three Fellows newly arrived at the Italian Academy.

The Fellows and their projects are:

The Empire architecture firm (Italy)
An American temple

University of Italian Switzerland (USI; Switzerland)
Iroquois spatial thinking and the political imagination in the Early Modern Atlantic world, 1535–1775

Independent Scholar (Japan)
Sylvo-urbanism: reframing nature and urban trees in Early Modern Rome

Ludovico Centis and Natsumi Nonaka are both Weinberg Fellows in Architectural History and Preservation; more information about the Weinberg initiative is .

Doors open at 3:30pm. Registration does not guarantee a seat; registrants are seated first-come, first served.
This event is in-person only.

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Italian Academy, Columbia University, 1161 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, United States

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