Cristiano Guarneri

Università Iuav di Venezia

cguarneri@iuav.it

Cristiano Guarneri is architectural and urban historian. He has been a teaching assistant at the University of Brescia since 2005 and was a research fellow at the Archivio del Moderno – Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio (2007–2008) and the Università Iuav di Venezia (2012). In 2008 he won a fellowship for a “chercheur débutant” at the Nationale Swiss Fund.

Guarneri earned his PhD in the History of Architecture and the City, Sciences of the Arts and Restoration from the School for Advanced Studies in Venice in 2010. Since then, his research has focused on various topics in early modern and modern times, including the role of architecture in building and transforming cities (St. Petersburg during the reign of Peter the Great); the functionality of the architectural project (the interior design of Italian Renaissance palazzi and museum and proto-museum displays); and the relationship between architecture and the sciences (in 16th-century Venetian fortresses and 17th- and 18th-century European observatories).