Events

Past Event

Built Spaces: The Iroquois, the Romans, & the Manhattan Project

February 10, 2026
4:00 PM - 5:45 PM
America/New_York
Italian Academy, 1161 Amsterdam Ave., New York, NY 10027

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: 

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.  

Click here to register.

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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