Events

Past Event

Built Spaces: The Iroquois, the Romans, and the Manhattan Project at Columbia

February 10, 2026
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM
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Library, Italian Academy (1161 Amsterdam Av, NYC 10027). In-person only.

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. 

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The Fellows and their projects are: 

Ludovico Centis 
The Empire architecture firm (Italy)
An American temple

Lorenzo Gatta
University of Italian Switzerland (USI; Switzerland)
Iroquois spatial thinking and the political imagination in the early modern Atlantic world, 1535–1775

Natsumi Nonaka
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 here.  

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