Lectures

2025 – 2010

This register documents the public talks of Antonino Cardillo: lectures, conference papers, seminars and live interviews. Listed in reverse chronological order, it provides a verifiable record of the contexts in which his research has been presented in person, offering a resource for historical and academic research

C. G. Jung-Institut Zürich

Presented the seminar ‘Depth architecture – The aesthetic nature of the psyche’ as part of the autumn 2025 Analytical Psychology Training Programme at the C. G. Jung-Institut Zürich.

Küsnacht, (de, en, it)

Dipartimento di Architettura, Università di Palermo

Outlined a personal journey shaped by childhood in Trapani and the formative encounter with Antonietta Iolanda Lima in Palermo, during the lecture ‘Style, form, proportion, position’, part of the main conference series La giovane architettura 4, organised by the Dipartimento di Architettura at the Università di Palermo.

Palermo, (en, it)

California Polytechnic State University

Discussed the phenomenology of self-documentation in the lecture ‘Architecture of a historiography: antoninocardillo.com’, delivered during a visit to the house project Elogio del grigio, as part of California Polytechnic State University’s History/Theory Workshop, invited by Professor Thomas Di Santo.

Elogio del grigio, Castiglione delle Stiviere, (de, en, it)

Museo Agostino Pepoli

Presented built works in the lecture ‘An integrative journey’, following an introduction by anthropologist Rita Cedrini, as part of the encounter L’antropologia nell’architettura at the Museo Agostino Pepoli in Trapani.

Trapani, (en, it)

Dessau Institute of Architecture

Interpreted seven images of architectural works in the lecture ‘A synchronicity of cultures and civilisations’, introduced by Professor Johannes Kister, part of the Dessauer Gespräche series at the Dessau Institute of Architecture, Bauhaus Campus.

Bauhaus Campus, Dessau, (de, en, it)

Istituto Luce Cinecittà

Explored the relationship between video games and architecture in the lecture ‘From Zak McKracken to House of Dust’, part of a panel at the Rome Video Game Lab festival, curated by Diego Grammatico and held at the Istituto Luce, Cinecittà Studios.

Rome, (en, it)

Royal College of Art, Interior Design Department

Discussed the nightclub project in the lecture ‘The making of Rome’s Off Club’, part of the Inside/Out conference series curated by Yara Boulos and Riccardo Rizzetto of the Interior Design department at the Royal College of Art.

Royal College of Art, London, (en, it)

Heinze GmbH

Spoke on architectural archetypes in the lecture ‘Vaults, grottoes, arches and polychromy’, part of Heinze ArchitekTOUR Kongress, the closing congress of the ArchitekTOUR 2017 series, in the halls of the former Berlin Station, curated by Stephan Burkoff.

STATION-Berlin, Berlin, (de, en, it)

Mitte/Rand Verlag

Interviewed by Tim Berge on beginnings, antiquity, and the sexuality of architecture, at the Mitte/Rand lounge on Berlin’s Marienstraße, invited by directors Jeanette Kunsmann and Stephan Burkoff.

Berlin, (de, en, it)

Architectural Association School of Architecture

Guided the students of Intermediate Unit 2 between Lombardy and Veneto, and through the building site of the house later named Elogio del grigio, part of The Inside and the Outside, the unit’s 2016–17 programme by Ana Araujo.

Lake Garda, – (en, it)

Goethe-Universität

Presented the Seven Houses for No One series and spoke on the theme of faked reality in the lecture The Dream Houses of Antonino Cardillo, part of the Constructed Realities series at the Goethe-Universität and the Deutsches Architekturmuseum in Frankfurt, invited by Professors Chris Dähne, Frederike Lausch and Bettina Rudhof.

Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Frankfurt am Main, (de, en, it)

Architectural Association School of Architecture

Participated in The Language of Flowers, the 2013 Intermediate Unit 2 programme at the AA School in London, invited by Professors Ana Araujo and Takero Shimazaki. Curated the study trip to Sicily, introduced work to students, and engaged in design reviews and critical discussions. Separately, student Alexandra Savtchenko-Belskaia invited a presentation of the recent Rome project during the House of Dust lecture.

Architectural Association School of Architecture, Sicily/London, – (en, it)

Associazione Italiana di Architettura e Critica

Delivered the lecture ‘Function is a pretext’ in the first panel of Talents at Architects meet in Selinunte, the international congress convened by the Associazione Italiana di Architettura e Critica in the archaeological park of Selinunte, among the twenty practices under thirty-five chosen by Luigi Prestinenza Puglisi.

Parco archeologico di Selinunte, Castelvetrano, (en, it)

Facoltà di Architettura, Università di Palermo

Delivered the lecture ‘The lesson of history in architectural design’ in Antonietta Iolanda Lima’s course Storia dell’architettura contemporanea, nine years after graduating in that same faculty.

Palermo, (en, it)

Chelsea College of Art and Design

Recounted computer-generated images in the lecture ‘Light and rendering’, part of the Spaces & Narrations lecture series at Chelsea College of Art and Design, invited by Professor Ana Araujo.

London, (en, it)