History of modern and contemporary architecture and art
The professors, lecturers and collaborators in this field conduct research and teaching on architectural production and figurative art from the late Age of Enlightenment until the contemporary period.
The transformations of the formal and typological language of architecture, design and the visual arts are analysed in their historical, social and political contexts, with an approach that seeks to investigate the continuity and disruptions that characterised the architectural and artistic culture of the 20th century in relation to previous centuries, together with the issues of structure, function and aesthetics through which the identity and images of modernity have been constructed and whose effects can be registered in contemporary design and critical activity and in the global society of the present.
This field comprises the following ongoing research projects:
Gottfried Semper: Styl. Critical and Commented Edition, Coordinator: Sonja Hildebrand
Territory as Palimpsest: The legacy of André Corboz. Coordinator: Sonja Hildebrand
Visibility Reclaimed. Experiencing Rome's First Public Museums (1733-1870). An Analysis of Public Audiences in a Transnational Perspective, Coordinator: Carla Mazzarelli
Coordinators
Christoph Frank
Dr. phil., Full Professor, Founding Director ISA
Sonja Hildebrand
Dr. phil., Full Professor, Pro-Rector USI
Carla Mazzarelli
Dr. phil., Adjunct Professor
Lecturers ISA
Tobia Bezzola
Dr. phil., Lecturer
André Bideau
Dr. phil. /Dipl. arch. ETH, Lecturer
Gabriele Neri
Dr. arch., Lecturer
Vega Tescari
Dr. phil., Lecturer
Assistants, Scientific collaborators, Ph.D candidates
Anna Bernardi
Dr. phil., Scientific collaborator, Lecturer
Gaetano Cascino
Master in Lingua, letteratura e civiltà italiana, Ph.D Assistant SNF
Elena Chestnova
Dr. phil., Scientific collaborator, Lecturer
Raphael Germann
Master of Arts in History, Scientific collaborator FNS
Bernhard Metz
Dr. phil., Scientific collaborator FNS
Luca Piccoli
Msc. arch., Ph.D Assistant SNF
Dieter Weidmann
Dr. phil., Scientific collaborator FNS
