Buildings, cities and territories on one side, and books on the other, define the enduring objects of architectural practice. The intellectual and professional life of architects and urbanists unfolds between these two poles, their thoughts and actions set down on the physical world and the printed matter. The tension and exchange that this condition generates will be investigated through the narration of ten accomplished projects and one ambitious plan that reflect on the reciprocal influences between these two spheres.

Ludovico Centis is an architect, founder of the office The Empire and co-founder and editor of the architecture magazine San Rocco. He has been a partner at the architectural office Salottobuono from 2007 to 2012. He is currently a doctoral candidate in urbanism at IUAV University in Venice, Italy. He has lectured at Università IUAV di Venezia (Venice), the Politecnico in Milan, Festarch (Cagliari), the Auditorium dell’Ara Pacis (Rome), the Hong Kong & Shenzhen Biennale of Urbanism, the Palais de Tokyo (Paris), the Architectural Association School of Architecture (London), the Faculté d’Architecture La Cambre Horta (ULB, Brussels), the 21er Haus (Vienna), Cornell University (Ithaca, NY), and Princeton University (Princeton, NJ). Centis has been the 2013–14 Peter Reyner Banham Fellow at the University at Buffalo–SUNY. During the spring of 2015 he has been at the Center for Land Use Interpretation as a participant in the Wendover Residence Program.

Organized by Associate Professor Mason White.