Next Thursday, 11 December at 18:00, Professor Filippo De Pieri will be at the Técnico – DeCivil Museum to present a lecture on his most recent research on Giancarlo De Carlo, focusing on public debates, private notes, and his connections with America in the late 1960s.

Filippo De Pieri is Professor of Architectural History at the Politecnico di Torino, where he coordinates the PhD programme Architecture: History and Design. He has been a visiting scholar at Harvard University, Tsinghua University, and EPFL. His research interests include early 19th-century urban planning history, 20th-century urban conservation, collective housing, and the environmental history of architecture.
His recent publications include Porter le temps: Mémoires urbaines d’un site horloger (MētisPresses 2021, IPHS Bosma Prize, with F. Graezer Bideau), Tra simili: Storie incrociate dei quartieri italiani del secondo dopoguerra (Quodlibet 2022), and the forthcoming Housing Histories: New Research Strategies for Twentieth-Century Residential Architecture (Bloomsbury 2026, with G. Caramellino). He is also the editor of the first volume of Giancarlo De Carlo’s journal, to be published in 2026.