About My Work
I’m working on urban politics in Rome in the 1970s and 1980s, a period during which the Communist Party held the majority in the city council. My main interest lies in the entanglement of urban planning discourse with institutional and political processes. Although the production of knowledge and ideas about Rome was immense at the time, the actual outcomes of urban development remained rather conventional. I am therefore trying to understand the dynamics of this problem in greater detail. The period I study is crucial not only for the urban history of Rome, but also for broader debates about the years after the economic boom, when the paradigm of modernity in architecture and urban planning was reaching the end of its hegemony. I consider this subject particularly significant because it sheds light on an important process of political, cultural, and social transformation at the scale of a city.
Citations
PhD project: Repairing Rome – Communist Urban Policy and the Crisis of Modernity, 1976–1985 (University of Jena, advisor: Thomas Kroll)
regular publications in the architectural magazine "Bauwelt" such as
La Tour Montparnasse Infernale, Bauwelt 12.2026
Die Janusköpfige, Bauwelt 20.2022
or in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
"Die Stadt als Inselgruppe", FAZ 22.08.2024