Alessandra Ferrighi

Università Iuav di Venezia

ferrighi@iuav.it

 

Alessandra Ferrighi is an assistant professor of History of Architecture at the Università Iuav di Venezia, where she has been a researcher since 1998. She graduated with honors from the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia (now Università Iuav di Venezia) in Restoration. She received a Master in Protection and Preservation of Cultural Heritage from the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa in 1999 and a Ph.D. in Building and Environmental Conservation from the Università degli Studi di Genova in 2005.
Ferrighi has coordinated the Visualizing Venice team since 2011. She curated the exhibition “Visualizing Venice, new technologies for urban history,” which opened at Spazio Gino Valle at the Iuav in December 2012 and has since traveled to Zagreb, Zara, and Split (Croatia); Florence, Shenzhen (China), and Saint Petersburg (Russia). She is currently working on an Information System to track urban transformation over space and time.