The lecture series aims to promote architectural design as a story of research, spatial experimentation, and figurative inquiry, through a series of lectures by architects presenting their built and unbuilt work. It offers an inevitably heterogeneous survey of architectural practice, united nonetheless by a common thread: the design project as an occasion for critical reflection on the contemporary city and society. Each event includes, following the lecture, a discussion with emerging designers or researchers from some of the most important academies in Italy and abroad, aimed at critically examining the practice of design.

5:45 PM | Check-in

6:00 PM | Institutional greetings
Christian Rocchi, President of OAR
Abigail Brundin, Director of the BSR

6:15 PM | Presentation of the lecture series
Claudia Ricciardi, Director of CdA

6:30 PM | Lecture: WELCOMING GRAVITY
Alison Brooks, Alison Brooks Architects

7:30 PM | Alison Brooks in conversation with Carlo Gandolfi, Bunker-arc + audience Q&A

8:00 PM | Check-out

Scientific coordinator: Claudia Ricciardi, Director of Casa dell’Architettura
Tutor: Nives Barranca, OAR Training

Free admission | registration required for CFP credit recognition at formazione.architettiroma.it | in English with simultaneous translation via QR code, directly on your own device

16 September 2026
5:45 PM–8:00 PM

Casa dell’Architettura
Piazza Manfredo Fanti, 47
Rome