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Spring 2018, final reviews for Architecture and Interior Design studios.

Final reviews for Spring 2018 Architecture and Interior Design studios are coming up!

This coming Friday is the day for our Spring 2018 Architecture and Interior Design studio final reviews. Our students will present their projects to an extraordinary lineup of faculty from Kent State University, College of Architecture + Environmental Design and guest critics including Dean Mark Mistur, Diane Davis-Sikora, David Thal, Abdel Moniem El-Shorbagy (Effat University),…

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Spring 2018, lecture by Jules Coke.

Jules Coke, founding partner and CEO at Squint/Opera in London, to lecture at KSUF CAED.

Jules Coke, co-founder and CEO at Squint/Opera, based in London, will lecture on Tuesday April 10 at Palazzo Vettori. Marco Brizzi will introduce his presentation. Squint/Opera are a creative company, a large and talented team crafting extraordinary and unique work across many disciplines – from video content and animation, to interactive exhibitions, branding, websites, design, games and…

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Spring 2018, LOOK AT ME NOW! workshop at Kent State University Florence CAED. (Photo: Anna Positano).

LOOK AT ME NOW! Spring 2018 workshops.

The week after midterm reviews (March 19 – 22, 2018), students enrolled in the Architecture and in the Interior Design programs at Kent State University in Florence attended the fourth edition of the LOOK AT ME NOW! workshop. Instructors were two architects, photographers and video makers who are especially talented in portraying contemporary architecture in photography…

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Spring 2018, LOOK AT ME NOW! workshop at Kent State University Florence CAED. (Photo: Anna Positano).

LOOK AT ME NOW! photography and video workshops to start next week.

The week after midterm reviews (March 19 – 22, 2018), students enrolled in the Architecture and in the Interior Design programs at Kent State University in Florence will attend the fourth edition of the LOOK AT ME NOW! workshops. Instructors are two architects, photographers and video makers who are especially talented in portraying contemporary architecture…

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Mixing Metabolisms symposium.

Mixing Metabolisms symposium.

On Wednesday November 20, 2017 a symposium, co-produced with Syracuse University and California State University, Florence programs, will take place at Palazzo Vettori. The symposium, titled “Mixing Metabolisms: Old Cities and New Residents”, is curated by prof. Lawrence Davis, Undergraduate Chair at Syracuse University School of Architecture. It develops a discussion around transformations in the…

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Fall 2017, lecture by Ricardo Flores.

Ricardo Flores, co-founder at Flores&Prats, to lecture at Kent State University Florence CAED.

Ricardo Flores, co-founder at Flores&Prats in Barcelona, Spain, will lecture on Thursday November 2 at Palazzo Vettori. Paola Giaconia will introduce him. The studio of Flores & Prats Arquitectos is dedicated to confronting theory and academic practice with the design and construction activity. The office was established in 1998, after winning the competition for the masterplan…

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Spring 2017, lecture by Stefano Pujatti.

Stefano Pujatti, founder and principal at ElasticoSPA, to lecture at Kent State University Florence CAED.

Stefano Pujatti, founder and principal at ElasticoSPA in Turin, Italy, will lecture on Tuesday April 11 at Palazzo Vettori. Marzo Brizzi will introduce him. For ElasticoSPA design is science-fiction rather than just a science. It’s a balance between form and function, it’s innovation and realism, it means jumping forward keeping in mind what’s behind. ElasticoSPA…

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