Luka Skansi

Luka Skansi is an architectural historian, associate professor at Politecnico di Milano (DASTU – Dipartimento di Architettura e Studi Urbani). His research interests include in particular Italian architecture and engineering of the 20th century, the architecture in Socialist Yugoslavia and Russian and Soviet architecture. 

He was a visiting scholar at the CCA in Montreal, Visiting Professor at the Faculties of Architecture in Belgrade, Ljubljana and Venice. He participated in the 2014 Venice Biennale, curated by Rem Koolhaas-AMO, with the installation The Remnants of a Miracle. He curated the exhibition Streets and Neighbourhoods at MAO, Ljubljana, for which he was awarded with the Plečnik Medal in 2018. He served as a member of the curatorial board of the exhibition Toward a Concrete Utopia. Architecture in Yugoslavia 1948-1980, held at MoMA in 2018, NY; and as a member of the curatorial staff of the exhibition Fiume Fantastika, held in Rijeka (Croatia) during its year as the European Capital of Culture (2020-21).

He is the author of several books, essays and articles on Carlo Scarpa, Aldo Rossi, Gino Valle, Pier Luigi Nervi, Myron Goldsmith, Jože Plečnik, Nikolaj Ladovskij, Moisei Ginzburg, Peter Behrens, Manfredo Tafuri, Vladimir Braco Mušič.

Wominjeka (Welcome). We acknowledge the Yaluk-ut Weelam as the traditional custodians of the land on which we meet. Yaluk-ut Weelam means ‘people of the river camp’ and is connected with the coastal land at the head of Port Phillip Bay, extending from the Werribee River to Mordialloc. The Yaluk-ut Weelam are part of the Boon Wurrung, one of the five major language groups of the greater Kulin Nation. We pay our respects to the land, their ancestors and their elders—past, present and to the future.