Main Focus
- History of architecture
- Postcolonial studies
- Transcultural exchanges
- Architectural and artistic historiography
Research Project
Palladianism in West Africa: The Ambiguities of an Architectural Migration
Curriculum Vitae
Federico Marcomini is an
early-career researcher who specializes in history of architecture from a
transcultural and transdisciplinary perspective. He received his PhD in History
of Architecture and the City at the University of Florence (2024), where he previously
obtained a Master’s degree in History of Art (2020). Currently, he is
post-doctoral research fellow at the Bibliotheca Hertziana –
Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte, where he collaborates with the
research unit Decolonizing Italian Visual and Material Culture: From
Nation Building to Now. He also worked as research assistant at the Centro
Internazionale di Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio in Vicenza (2023–2024),
and collaborates with La Sapienza University of Rome. His main research focus
is the appearance and resignification of the classical language of
architecture in novel geographies and chronologies. In his doctoral
dissertation, he analyzed the adoption of the classical language in Astana, the
purpose-built capital of Kazakhstan since 1997. His current research project
investigates the uses of classical and Palladian features in the architecture
of Liberia, West Africa, engaging with postcolonial and decolonial theories to
unpack the cultural implications of this phenomenon. His work has been
disseminated through scholarly publications and presentations at international
and interdisciplinary conferences.