Dr. Allan Ceen, SU Director

The creative and scholarly enterprises of the Studium Urbis are led by Dr. Allan Ceen, educator, curator, and historian of architecture and urban planning with a focus on the urban history of Rome, Italy as seen through plan-maps (in particular the Nolli Plan), view-maps, and in the fabric of the city itself. Dr. Ceen is a graduate of Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania and formerly taught with various American architecture programs in Rome, such as the Cornell University Rome Architecture Program. He is currently an Adjunct Professor of the History of Architecture and Urban Planning with the Pennsylvania State University Rome Program (Sede di Roma) and teaches the Roman Cartography as Imago Urbis seminar-class, amongst many others. He has also conducted numerous educational and professional architectural and urban history walking tours throughout the city of Rome and in other locations as well, such as Siena, Italy. In addition, Dr. Ceen has contributed to a number of exhibitions and has written several articles for various publications and journals. He was a contributing author for, Piranesi, Rome Recorded, an essay in the edition of Piranesi's Vedute di Roma from the Collection of the Arthur Ross Foundation; for The Splendor of 18th Century Rome exhibition catalogue with The Philadelphia Museum of Art; and he wrote the introductory essay for the archival reproduction of Nolli's la pianta grande di Roma, a facsimile of the original. (He also knows where to find the best coffee houses in Rome.) In addition to serving as the director of the Studium Urbis, Dr. Ceen also coordinates the SU workshops, organizes related lectures & seminars, and curates exhibitions at the SU gallery. Dr. Ceen and his family reside in Rome, Italy.

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The Studium Urbis
Rome Research Center in Architecture and Urban Planning
Centro ricerca topografica di Roma
Via di Montoro 24 - 00186 Rome Italy
Tel. (06) 686-1191 (Rome)
studiumurbis@gmail.com
http://www.studiumurbis.org