scientific committee

Università Iuav di Venezia

Maria Bonaiti, Massimo Bulgarelli, Fulvio Lenzo, Marzia Marandola, Marko Pogacnik, Federica Rossi, Vitale Zanchettin

other universities

Elisabetta Molteni (Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia), Marco Mulazzani (Università di Ferrara), Paolo Nicoloso (Università di Trieste), Francesco Repishti (Politecnico di Milano), Luigi Carlo Schiavi (Università di Pavia), Luka Skansi (Politecnico di Milano), Marida Talamona (Università di Roma Tre)

experts

Matteo Ceriana, Giovanna Curcio, Mario Piana

PhD students

Maria Grazia Cozzitorto, Tuia Giannesini, Claudia Giorgi, Daniel Fernando Macías Parra, Francesco Maranelli, Tommaso Moretto, Nicolas Moucheront, Giordano Ocelli, Giacomo Picco, Aurora Pizziolo, José Miguel Sambucety Rueda, Ana Laura Solano Rodriguez, Angelica Stern, Francesca Usai, Emre Yurdakul, Lidia Alessandra Zianna

PhD students with Iuav grants in doctoral courses of national interest

Stefano Guadagno - Università degli studi di Roma “La Sapienza”

Scientific research in the History of architecture aims to train highly specialised historians of architecture and the city, capable of tackling with awareness and rigour any problem inherent to the discipline in its broadest sense. The activity programme aims to familiarise the approaches and methods of the discipline in its long historical path, as well as to promote a flexible attitude in the study and an up-to-date exchange with the international scientific community.

Attention is paid to the technical aspects of research, such as the knowledge and use of archives and libraries, the reading of handwritten and printed sources and architectural drawings, the direct analysis of the artefacts; the acquisition of the most modern techniques of philological research; the diversity of approaches, including those of parallel disciplines, such as the art history, the history of technology, the history of ideas; knowledge of and visits to the main Italian and international centres for the study of the history of architecture; direct experience of research through the preparation of a thesis; and, finally, methods for presenting the results in oral, written and visual form.

Regarding the specific teaching and research activities to accompany the transversal training provided by the Bembo Writing Workshop, the study programme in the History of architecture is indicatively structured as follows.

1. First year: first-year PhD students are invited to take an active part in an industry seminar, a seminar given by an internal or external professor of the Scientific committee of the research field, which takes place from October to April. The topics covered concern a well-circumscribed topic, and they tend to be included in a chronological span that can vary from the Middle Ages to the contemporary. The seminar consists of three ex-cathedra lectures, a conference, the assignment of research topics, meetings between the PhD students and the seminar leader, and a final presentation by the PhD students after the paper drafting. A second, shorter seminar is organised in the second semester.

For admission to the following year, it is necessary to successfully pass the two seminars and participate in the activities proposed by the field during the year.

2. Second year: second-year PhD students are primarily engaged in research for their thesis and will be called to account for this research at least once per semester by presenting specific topics, problems and issues to their peers and the Scientific committee, which may also include external experts on such occasions.

For admission to the following year, it is necessary to successfully pass the thesis progress and participate in the activities proposed by the field during the year.

3. Third year: third year PhD students present their research progress at least twice a year on dedicated days with the participation of all other PhD students, the Scientific committee, and possibly external professors.

Seminars and conferences on topics of interest in the field are also offered every year as well as seminar meetings involving PhD students from different cycles.

Every year, one or more study trips are organised, lasting from two to ten days. PhD students are required to prepare presentations to be held on-site.

recently published dissertations

> Clara Altavista

Lucca e Paolo Guinigi, 1400-1430: la costruzione di una corte. Città, architettura, arte, ETS, Pisa 2005

> Alessandro Brodini

Michelangelo a San Pietro. Progetto, cantiere e funzione delle cupole minori, Campisano, Roma 2009

> Valeria Cafà

Palazzo Massimo alle Colonne di Baldassarre Peruzzi. Storia di una famiglia romana e del suo palazzo in rione Parione, Marsilio, Venezia 2007

> Giulia Ceriani Sebregondi

Architettura e committenza a Siena nel Cinquecento. L'attività di Baldassarre Peruzzi e la storia di Palazzo Francesconi, Aska edizioni, Siena 2011

> Jessica Gritti

Echi albertiani. Chiese a navata unica nella cultura architettonica della Lombardia sforzesca, Iuav-Il poligrafo, Padova 2014

> Fulvio Lenzo

Architettura e antichità a Napoli dal XV al XVIII secolo. Le colonne del Tempio dei Dioscuri e la chiesa di San Paolo Maggiore, L'Erma di Bretschneider, Roma 2011

> Francesca Mattei

Eterodossia e vitruvianesimo, Palazzo Naselli a Ferrara 1527-1538, Campisano Editore, Roma 2013

> Silvia Micheli, Erik Bryggman 1891-1955. Architettura moderna in Finlandia, Gangemi, Roma 2009

> Laura Moretti

Dagli Incurabili alla Pietà. Le chiese degli Ospedali Grandi di Venezia tra architettura e musica (1522-1790), Olschki, Firenze 2008

> Alberto Muffato

William Lescaze. Il grattacielo PSFS a Philadelphia e il modernismo americano, Electa, Milano 2012

> J.K. Mauro Pierconti

Carlo Scarpa e il Giappone, Electa, Milano 2007

> Daniele Pisani

Piuttosto un arco trionfale che una porta di città. Agostino di Duccio e la porta San Pietro a Perugia, Marsilio, Venezia 2009

> Leo Schubert

La Villa Jeanneret-Perret di Le Corbusier 1912. La prima opera autonoma, Marsilio, Venezia 2006

Porre un limite all’infinito errore. Studi di storia dell’architettura dedicati a Christof Thoenes, a cura di A. Brodini, G. Curcio, atti delle giornate di studio (Venezia 2008), Campisano, Roma 2012

Villa Trivulzio alle sorgenti di Salone. Il ritiro di un cardinale milanese nella campagna romana, a cura di A. Bonavita, Scalpendi editore, Milano 2020.