‘To what end’ technology? The difficult externalization of project knowledge
June 29, 2022
CIB World Building Congress, Melbourne 2022.
A che serve la tecnologia? Riflessioni contro l’ideologia del just-do-it
June 6, 2022
Seminario Laboratori di Costruzione dell’architettura,
Scuola di Architettura, Urbanistica e Ingegneria delle Costruzioni (AUIC),
Politecnico di Milano
La conception des bâtiments comme catalyseur de la culture de la sobriété énergétique
May 31, 2022
Assises européennes de la transition énergétique, Palaexpo, Genève.
Workshop ‘Anticiper les besoins de compétences-métiers pour réaliser la transition énergétique’. Atelier 6.
La qualité: une question d’information?
April 29, 2022
Conférence 3. Cycle de conférences sur la Culture du bâti at ULB Faculté d’Architecture.
‘Woman’ as seventh professional category?
October 6, 2021
Thematic research seminar The Global architect, at Politecnico di Milano.
Sustainability in the context of the global crisis
August 25, 2021
Conversaciones Creativas Internacionales, Capacidad de Carga y Gestión Sustentable de Territorios, Online symposium, Pontificia Universidad Catolica Santiago, Chile, Panelist.
Over a year on
May 29, 2021
In this symposium organized by the Institute of Architecture and the City, and chaired by Paolo Tombesi at the Rolex Learning Center, an international group of architects explore architecture’s ability to act upon what is critical and required today.
Architect as a verb
August 20, 2019
Escuela de Arquitectura, Pontificia Universidad Catolica Santiago, Chile.
Four university models and their regional diffusion
June 4, 2019
Accademia di San Luca, Rome, Italy, International Symposium ‘Teaching and Practice of Architecture’.
Architectural research and the emancipation of design
April 10, 2019
Escuela Tecnica Superior de Arquitectura Granada, Spain, ‘Miradas cruzadas: las atenciones del proyecto’ Lecture Series.
Architecture as a Verb
February 11, 2019
CEPT University, Ahmedabad, India, Faculty of Architecture Lecture Series.
Open field research
August 10-12, 2018.
Paolo Tombesi participates in the Kurula Varkey Design Forum at CEPT University, Ahmedabad. The Kurula Varkey Design Forum is a festival event hosted by the students of the Faculty of Architecture, where selected projects of students from various schools of architecture from India are presented and discussed before an international panel of critics.
International cooperation and construction: The relationship between bureaucracy and innovation
June 27-29, 2018.
FAR coordinates a special session at CODEV’s UNESCO Chair 2018 International Tech4Dev Conference. The session – International cooperation and construction: The relationship between bureaucracy and innovation – focusses on the efficacy of construction activity as support for development.
Duration, location and intelligence: Terms of an industrial conflict?
June 27-29, 2018.
Paolo Tombesi delivers a lecture – Duration, location and intelligence: Terms of an industrial conflict? – at the International Colloquium ‘Habiter aujourd’hui: De la ville intelligente à la ville durable’, organised at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Montepellier.
Concurrent engineering: ambitions and realities
June 12, 2018.
Paolo Tombesi delivers a lecture-seminar on concurrent engineering at the 2018 Convention of the Technical Department of Losinger Marazzi at EPFL’s Swiss Tech Convention Center.
Scrivere e rappresentare la storia: la complicazione Giurgoliana
May 16, 2018.
Paolo Tombesi delivers the address ‘Scrivere e rappresentare la storia: La complicazione giurgoliana’ at the symposium ‘Romaldo Giurgola: Nemo Propheta in Patria’, organized at the Casa dell’Architettura at the Acquario Romano by the Institute of Architects of Rome, to commemorate the italian-american architect two years after his death.
Technological Power
March 27, 2018.
Paolo Tombesi moderates a debate on the technological power of architecture at the Casa de Arquitectura in Matosinhos, Portugal. The debate is part of a two-day event linked to the exhibition Poder Arquitectura, organised by Jorge Carvalho, Pedro Bandeira and Ricardo Carvalho.
Looking at diffused communities of practice: A social view of technological innovation. Watchmaking in the Swiss Jura: A lesson in the comparative advantage of rural districts?
March 10, 2018.
Paolo Tombesi delivers two lectures at the Symposium Social Structures, smart development and economic growth, organised by the Australia India Institute at the University of Melbourne. The symposium aims at bringing ‘people’ to the fore of the debate on smart urban development and regional innovation.
What do we mean by design?
September 29, 2017.
Paolo Tombesi gives the opening lecture of the Academic Year 2017-2018 at the School of Architecture of the University of Navarra in Pamplona.
Australian Centre for Architectural History, Urban and Cultural Heritage
August 21, 2017.
Paolo Tombesi presents a tribute lecture to the life and work of Romaldo Giurgola (1920-2016) at the Melbourne School of Design, as part of the activities of the Australian Centre for Architectural History, Urban and Cultural Heritage.
To build what? Reflections of a skeptic of thin vault construction
June 6, 2017.
Paolo Tombesi gives a public lecture at the Opificio Golinelli in Bologna, as part of the SOS Open Lecture Series of the School of Sustainability of Mario Cucinella Architects.
Alla ricerca di una estranea familiarità: Il passato come strumento e materia nel lavoro di Romaldo Giurgola
May 16, 2017.
Paolo Tombesi gives a Lectio Magistralis at the Accademia di San Luca, in Palazzo Carpegna in Rome, to celebrate the Academician Romaldo Giurgola, one year from his passing.
Smart Living Lab: A critical introduction
May 4-6, 2017.
Paolo Tombesi gives a series of lectures and seminars at the Universidad del Valle in Cali, Colombia, to disseminate the work being done at the Smart Living Lab in Fribourg.
A strategic view of the dynamics of innovation in design and construction
February 9, 2017.
Paolo Tombesi lectures at the Msheireb Enrichment Centre in Doha, Qatar, on the dynamics of innovation in construction.
CEPT University
January 30-31, 2017.
Paolo Tombesi takes part into two celebrative events at the College of Environmental Planning and Technology (CEPT University) in Ahmedabad, India, honouring Bharat Dave (1956-2014) and Romaldo Giurgola (1920-2016).
The ARUP Foundation Lecture and Panel ‘Disruptive models of engineering education’
November 9, 2016.
Paolo Tombesi moderates the final panel of the Ove Arup Foundation Workshop at the School of Civil Engineering of the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
Innovation in Construction: The Melbourne School of Design
October 20, 2015.
Paolo Tombesi delivers a public lecture on construction innovation at the International Construction Industry Exhibition Edifica 2015 in Santiago, Chile.
Architectural Research and Future Practice
September 29, 2015.
Paolo Tombesi participates in the debate on ‘architectural research and future practice’ organised at the Brisbane Museum by the School of Architecture of the University of Queensland.
Passage through India: The journey of one man’s ideas on the construction of history, places and cities
January 28, 2015
School of Architecture and Planning, Delhi.
Piranesi, antiquity, and the construction of the modern project
January 22, 2015
Akshara Foundation, Ahmedabad, India.
The ARUP Foundation Lecture and Workshop ‘From constraint to innovation’
November 7, 2014
School of Engineering, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, Panelist.
A different kind of industrial design: The natural point of arrival of Utzon’s innovation strategies
March 9, 2014
What would Utzon do now? The 4th International Utzon Symposium, Sydney Opera House.
Piranesi, antiquity, and the construction of the modern project
February 28, 2014
Piranesi and the Impact of the Late Baroque Symposium, The Australian Institute of Art History, The University of Melbourne.
New Technologies / New processes – Architecture and Construction Roundtable
May 24, 2013
BMW Edge @ Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia, Panelist.
Technologies for Sustainable Development: A Way to Reduce Poverty?
May 31, 2012
Human Settlement Session Chair, 2012 Tech4Dev International Conference, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Family relations
October 30, 2011
Old School/New School, ACSA Administrators Conference, Los Angeles, United States, Keynote speech.
The Melbourne Model: professional education and design culture
May 20, 2011
An Integrated System of Education for the Built Environment Symposium, Centre for the Study of the Production of the Built Environment (ProBE), University of Westminster, London, United Kingdom.
In the shadow of the Sydney Opera House
May 5, 2011
Architectural Design between Teaching and Research, 1st International Congress of ReteVitruvio, Polytechnic of Bari, Italy, keynote speech.