This event will be conducted in-person in Room 315F and through Zoom.

For Zoom attendance, please register in advance here.

Rebecca Olivieri aims to recount the career of architect Rinaldo Olivieri, tracing the interplay between architecture and theater —a dual passion that defined his life, with the two disciplines constantly overlapping. The narrative spans his major works as an architect and set designer, culminating in "La Pyramide" in the Ivory Coast—currently on display at MoMA in New York—and the story behind the Architects of Liberation: Modernism in Western Africa exhibition that was done with support from the faculty and students at The Cooper Union School of Architecture.  

The lecture will be followed by a class discussion. 

After completing her classical high school education, Rebecca Olivieri earned her degree from the Faculty of Architecture in Venice, following in the footsteps of her father, the renowned architect Rinaldo Olivieri. Thanks to him, she spent part of her childhood in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, and in Los Angeles, USA. She manages her father’s architectural archive, maintaining relationships with universities and museums—both within Europe and beyond—that request materials for lectures, theses, and exhibitions. She travels the world with her husband, Luca.

This lecture is open to current Cooper Union students, faculty, and staff.