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View details about the event: Italian POWs in Australia on ScreenFuturism and the City of Tomorrow
Overview
On the occasion of the exhibit
Metropoli: Visionary Architecture from Futurism to Rationalism
On view at Casa Italiana through April 15, 2025
Interdisciplinary Panel
Beyond the Skyline
Futurism and the City of Tomorrow
With:
Ara H. Merjian, NYU, Metropoli curator
Nicola Lucchi, Magazzino Italian Art Museum, Metropoli curator
Vito Adriaensens, NYU
Ali Rahim, UPenn / Contemporary Architecture Practice
Spyros Papapetros, Princeton University
In ENGLISH
Speakers will present research and insights related to the exhibition and its connected themes, including current trends in urban and architectural avant-garde thinking and practice, the role of the city in Futurist imagination, the relationship between the built environment and ideology.