Temptation of Influence (44 min) is a filmic essay and a collage tracing how architectural ideas are passed down, reinterpreted and - inevitably - misread across generations. Centred on Irish architect Shane de Blacam (de Blacam and Meagher Architects), the starting point for this story is the quiet microcosm of his Dublin study, where plates from Palladio’s Four Books frame sketches by Louis Kahn. From this room, the film unfolds across Ireland, the Veneto and the American East Coast (New Haven, Philadelphia, New Hampshire), weaving landscapes, buildings and conversations into a meditation on memory, lineage and creative inheritance. Contributors include Kenneth Frampton, Níall McLaughlin, Sheila O’Donnell, Mary Laheen, Peter Carroll and William Whitaker, among others.

The film premiered at the Royal Academy of Arts (UK) and at Architecture at the Edge Festival (Ireland) in 2025 and was selected for the 37th Galway Film Fleadh.

The screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Marko Milovanovic, who will be joined in conversation by Ernest Fasanya, Director at Hopkins Architects.

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The project was initiated through a partnership between the Royal Academy of Arts and Architecture at the Edge as part of the 2024 Shane de Blacam Architecture Fellowship, with additional support from the British Council, the Arts Council of Ireland and the Architectural Association School of Architecture. The film was produced in collaboration with Paolo Barkett, with music by Chantal Michelle and narrated by Fearghus Raftery.

Marko Milovanovic is an architect, filmmaker, and curator. He is the founder of Mylomark Production and Publishing, and the educational conversational platform Free School Of. His first feature film, Temptation of Influence, premiered at the Royal Academy of Arts in 2025 and was selected for the official programme of the 37th Galway Film Fleadh. A committed educator, Marko currently teaches at the Architectural Association School of Architecture, the Royal College of Art, and Oxford Brookes University. He also commissions and curates the Film-Architecture Forum and the Publishing-Architecture Forum at the AA.

Ernest Fasanya is a Director at Hopkins Architects. His work spans education, healthcare and cultural projects. He led the delivery of the Music School at King’s College School, Wimbledon, and more recently the Pears Building, Institute of Immunity and Transplantation, a research centre on the Royal Free Hospital campus in North London. His most recent completed project is the Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities at the University of Oxford. He has taught at the Aarhus School of Architecture, UCL and Queen’s University Belfast, and has served as a juror for the Scottish Design Awards and the Civic Trust Awards.

Image: Shane de Blacam in his study by Marko Milovanovic.

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