The MassArt Department of Architecture invites you to join the Spring 2024 Tuesday Talks Speaker Series featuring Federico di Lallo, at 6:00pm on Tuesday, March 19 in person at the MassArt Design and Media Center's Huntington Studio. di Lallo will present the talk URBAN METROFITTING. The phenomenology of disuse as a contemporary adaptive space.

Federico di Lallo graduated with honors from the University of Pescara "Gabriele D'Annunzio" in Pescara, Italy. Following research at the University of Toronto as an International Visiting Graduate Student (IVGS), he received his Ph.D. with International Title from the "Gabriele D'Annunzio" School of Advanced Studies. He has been a research fellow at the same university.

In his ten years of academic activity in Italy, di Lallo has supported students in the master's degree program in "Urban and Architectural Design Studio"; with studies focused on the evolutionary dynamics and manifestations of disuse, his research, both national and international, addresses issues of regeneration of urban contexts and fragile territories. By reading urban landscapes and vacant architecture through the lens of underutilization, abandonment, decay and neglect, dormant potential can be reimagined, using methodologies of recycling and reuse. On these same themes, he is co-supervisor of several dissertations that serve as palimpsests in a multi-scalar perspective.

His professional activity is based on architectural design (public and private residential construction - social housing, design of places of worship, exhibition halls and public buildings), landscape design (landform, landscape art, gardens, environmental infrastructure) and finally urban design. In 2022, he will graduate in Civil Engineering with the environmental curriculum to enrich his coursework on current topics in the area of sustainability.

This event is free and open to the public.

For questions about attending the in-person event, contact MassArt Graduate Programs at gradprogram@massart.edu.

Image Detail: Franco Purini, Multiple city, 1997

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The Tuesday Talks series was first established in 2008 by MassArt's Architecture program. This visiting lecture series brings a wide range of design professionals who are engaged in creative endeavors to our community of students, staff, faculty and guests.