The fourth edition of our Talking Architecture series will feature Rick Lowe (2025 Resident), an artist and cofounder of Project Row Houses, and Jacopo Costanzo, an architect and curator based in Rome.

Talking Architecture is a series of talks in collaboration with La Sapienza and Casa dell’Architettura dedicated to new orientations and outstanding achievements in contemporary American architecture. It is an opportunity to explore cross-sections of American architecture, from tradition to innovation, new materials and sustainability, territories and landscapes, and the social role of architecture in its surroundings. Inviting Italian studios to dialogue with American architects, Talking Architecture provides the occasion to discuss theoretical approaches and applied research practices between the two countries. The series will participate further in advancing global contemporary debates around architecture, landscape, and design.

This series is addressed to a professional audience and provides professional credits. Lectures will be held in English.

Biographies

Rick Lowe was born in 1961 in rural Russell County, Alabama, and lives and works in Houston. Collections include the Brooklyn Museum, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS; Menil Collection, Houston; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; de Young Museum, San Francisco; and the UBS Art Collection. Solo exhibitions include Art League Houston (2020–21). He also participated in Documenta 14, Athens (2017). Among Lowe’s numerous community art projects are Project Row Houses, Houston (1993–2018); Watts House Project, Los Angeles (1996–2012); Borough Project (with Suzanne Lacy and Mary Jane Jacob), Charleston, SC (2003); Small Business/Big Change, Anyang Public Art Program, Korean(2010); Trans.lation, Dallas (2013); Victoria Square Project, Athens (2017–18); Greenwood Art Project, Tulsa, OK (2018–21); and Black Wall Street Journey, Chicago (2021–). In 2013 President Barack Obama appointed Lowe to the National Council on the Arts, and in 2014 he was named a MacArthur Fellow. Lowe is currently a professor of interdisciplinary practice at the University of Houston.

Jacopo Costanzo (AAR Advisor) is an architect and has a PhD in "Architecture. Theory and Design." He studied in Italy and Portugal and conducted research in China, Japan, and the United States. He is the co-founder of the Warehouse of Architecture and Research, where he serves as an associate designer. He curated the series Generazione: A Call from Rome, and exhibitions such as Re-Constructivist Architecture (New York), When in Rome (Royal Institute of British Architects), Aldo Rossi and the City (Pratt Institute), and Roma Novissima. He serves on the scientific committee of the Centro Studi Giorgio Muratore and is an advisor at the American Academy in Rome. He has taught at Domus Academy and the University of Pisa and currently teaches at the Istituto Europeo di Design. He is the editor-in-chief of Panteon Magazine and, since 2023, is part of the team at Laboratorio Roma050.