The Weitzman School Presents: Cameron Logan

On April 15, 2024, the Department of Historic Preservation and the Architectural Archive welcomed Cameron Logan for a lecture titled "Locating Giurgola: Rome, Philadelphia, Canberra."
This presentation introduces the Australian Research Council (ARC)-funded project, Locating Giurgola, a life and works study focused on the Italo-American architect Romaldo Giurgola. Giurgola’s biography was inexorably shaped by three cities-Rome, Philadelphia and Canberra. These cities, the Eternal City, the Workshop of the World, and the Bush Capital, seemingly have little in common, and Giurgola’s life and work naturally involved important encounters with other places, and many varied conceptions of architecture and civic life. But in his work and in his reflections on the practice of architecture, the three cities came to embody his artistic and political concerns. This talk will document key moments in this expansive, global itinerary, and suggest that Giurgola was ultimately interested in addressing the civic implications of three different ideas of the city that broadly correspond with the three cities: the city as an accumulation; the city as an incomplete figure; and the city as an object in the natural field.
Cameron Logan is an urban and architectural historian and director of the postgraduate program in heritage conservation in the School of Architecture, Design and Planning at the University of Sydney.