AA Visiting School tutor Ludovico Centis receives funding from the Paul Mellon Centre

Ludovico Centis, who runs the AA Visiting School A Blighty Safari: On Reyner Banham’s Tracks in the Age of Brexit has been awarded a Paul Mellon Centre Research Support Grant for his ongoing project Reyner Banham: A Set of Actual Tracks. The grant will fund Ludovico’s research work investigating the output of British architectural critic and historian, Reyner Banham. The project investigates the research methodology of one of the most relevant British architectural and design critics of the 20th century, Reyner Banham, and has a series of exhibition outputs.

The project follows Banham's methodology, including fieldwork and primary investigations of historic buildings and landscapes – something that Banham referred to as the “rhetoric of presence” – as well as direct access to archival sources, and interviews with the people who worked with and knew Banham. Through an evolving series of itinerant exhibitions in cities related to Banham's life, the project brings together archival and new materials produced by different generations of scholars, historians, architects, artists and students.