Cardillo

Inside/Out

Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore, South Kensington, London,

The Making of Rome’s Off Club conference part of the Inside/Out series of conferences at the Royal College of Art in London

Series

Inside/Out is a series of lectures curated and organised by the student reps in Interior Design. Each year students choose and arrange for the speakers, practices, thinkers, writers, artists and designers they want to see.

Inside/Out: 2019 lecture series

  • 22 January 2019: Antonino Cardillo
  • 5 February 2019: Martin Ebert
  • 12 February 2019: Katherine Skellon
  • 19 February 2019: Casson Mann
  • 28 February 2019: Flores y Prats
  • 12 March 2019: Robert Storey
  • 26 March 2019: India Mahdavi
  • 2 April 2019: Harry Nuriev
  • 21 May 2019: Andrea Santamarina
  • 7 October 2019: Michael Marriott
  • 28 October 2019: Hawkins\Brown
  • 11 November 2019: AOC Architecture
  • 18 November 2019: Turner Works
  • 25 November 2019: We Made That
RCA Inside/Out poster on Antonino Cardillo

The Off Club in Rome is a restaurant bar built over the past two years. In this conference I will discuss the process that led to its realisation. This project is about how the Psyche is involved in the body of architecture. My speech will therefore be divided into three parts: Vision, Construction, Identification. To realise a conscious architectural project, it is my custom to personally develop the entire creative process, which from the project leads to the representation through the construction of the work. This mode of operation leads to a different result. The Off Club project, therefore, transcends the ordinary function of the restaurant bar and tells my point of view on the world.

Antonino Cardillo al lecture theatre 1 del Royal College of Art

Publications

  • , ‘’, Proximities: Inhabitations: Identities: Interior Design RCA 2018-19, London, 2020, p. 8.
  • , ‘The Making of Rome’s Off Club’, paper presented to the Inside/Out, ed. Yara Boulos, Riccardo Rizzetto, Royal College of Art, London, 22 Jan. 2019; transcript published on , 7 Nov. 2023.
  • , ‘’, Royal College of Art, London, 21 Jan. 2019.