For more information contact:
Teri Nagel, College of Architecture
Contact Teri Nagel
404-385-2156
Location: College of Architecture Auditorium
Event Date: March 25, 2009
Time: 6:00 PM—7:30 PM
AIA credits available.
Libero Andreotti is Professor of Architecture and Resident Director of the Georgia Tech Paris Program. He holds a Ph.D. in Architectural History, Theory, and Criticism from MIT. His main areas of interest are the history of European art and architecture between the wars and avant garde movements after World War II. Mr. Andreotti was a Fulbright scholar to Italy in 1989 and a Fulbright Senior Scholar to France in 1994.
He is curator and editor, with Xavier Costa, of Situationist: Art, Politics, Urbanism held at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona and of Theory of the Derive and Other Situationist Writings on the City (Barcelona: ACTAR 1996). He is contributor and co-curator of the exhibition Mario Sironi: la grande decorazione at the Milan Triennale of 2004 (Milan: Electa 2004) and the at the Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna (2003). His writings have appeared in October, Lotus International, JAE, Architectural Theory Review, Built Environment, Design Studies, and Architecture and Idea. His forthcoming book Le Grand Jeu a Venir: écrits situationnistes sur la ville (Paris : Editions la Villette 2007), is funded in part through a grant from the French Ministry of Culture. Dr. Andreotti is also a practicing architect in Paris.
The Georgia Institute of Technology is one of the nation's premier research universities. Ranked seventh among U.S. News & World Report's top public universities, Georgia Tech's more than 19,000 students are enrolled in its Colleges of Architecture, Computing, Engineering, Liberal Arts, Management and Sciences. Tech is among the nation's top producers of women and African-American engineers. The Institute offers research opportunities to both undergraduate and graduate students and is home to more than 100 interdisciplinary units plus the Georgia Tech Research Institute.