Anna Rosellini is full professor (Museology, Art and Restoration Criticism) at the Department of the Arts, University of Bologna, where she coordinates the international curriculum in Arts, Museology and Curatorship, and full professor (History and Cultures of Architecture) at the École d'Architecture, de la Ville & des Territoires, Paris-Est, where she chairs the research commission. She was a scientifique collaborator and visiting professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, a visiting fellow at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris and received a research grant from the Fondation Le Corbusier. She has coordinated international research projects and authored publications on art and architecture of the 20th and 21st centuries. Her recent research activities are devoted to the habitat, studied at different scales, starting from the essential unit that has taken the theoretical and practical form of the "room"; the materials of art; the role of exhibitions in the revision and presentation of the theoretical, social and political foundations of architecture.
Education
Graduated in History and Conservation of Architectural and Environmental Heritage in 2003 from the IUAV University of Venice, she obtained a post graduated European Master's degree in History of Architecture (Università Roma Tre) in 2004 and a PhD in History of Architecture and the City, Science of the Arts and Restoration in 2008.
Academic career
After a few years of teaching (from 2009 to 2015) at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), in 2015 she became senior researcher in the disciplinary field History of Architecture, at the Department of Arts, University of Bologna. In March 2018 she became Associate Professor at the University of Bologna. In 2021 she was appointed Maîtresse de conférence at the École d'Architecture de la Ville & des Territoires in Paris-Est. Since 2024 she has been a full professor at the Department of the Arts of the University of Bologna (SSD: ARTE-01/D Museology and Art and Restoration Criticism) and at the ENSA Paris-Est of the Université Gustave Eiffel, (SSD: HCA History and Cultures of Architecture).
Teaching Activities
Since 2015 she has been continuously teaching in various courses for Bachelor's and Master's degrees in the Department of Arts at the University of Bologna and since 2021 he has been teaching in the Bachelor's and Master's degree courses in Architecture at ENSA Paris-Est, Université Gustave Eiffel.
In 2021-2022 he taught Architecture and Art in the Bachelor in Architecture at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL).
Scientific activity
She has participated in numerous national and international research programmes including: "Pensiero Radicale Esibito" (PRIN 2022) as PI; "Ressources communes" (BQR 2022) as coordinator; "Materials and their Life" (BQR 2021) as coordinator; "The Surface of Cement and Reinforced Concrete" (ERC-ADG 2009) as Senior Research Assistant (EPFL); "Le Corbusier and the Technique of the Cement Gun" (Fondation Le Corbusier 2007) as coordinator.
She was Visiting Professor at the École d'Architecture de la Ville & des Territoires in Paris-Est from 2014 to 2021 and at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) from 2021 to 2022 and Visiting Fellow at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris.
Institutional Activities and Academic Assignments
Since 2024 she is a member of the Self-Steering Committee, Cultural Heritage, University of Bologna, UNA Europa
Since 2019 she is a member of the Teaching Board of the PhD in Visual, Performative and Media Arts at the University of Bologna.
Since 2018 she is coordinator of the International Curriculum in Arts, Museology and Curatorship (AMaC), University of Bologna.
Since 2015 she has been a member of the following academic committees of the Department of the Arts: Commission for Teaching; Commission for Internationalisation.
From 2018 to 2021 she was Deputy Director of the Department of the Arts, University of Bologna and resposnsible for departmental spaces.
Membership of scientific and editorial boards
Since 2024, Director of the publishing series "Pensiero Radicale Esibito. Exhibitions of Architecture", AlmaDL, University of di Bologna
Since 2022, Deputy Director of the journal "Museum Materials and Discussions (MMD)", AlmaDL, Université de Bologne
Since 2021, Member of the Scientific Committee of the journal "IIC. L'Industria Italiana del Cemento", Associazione Italiana Tecnico Economica del Cemento (AITEC), Rome.
Since 2018 he is member of the editorial board of the journal "European Journal of Creative Practices in Cities and Landscapes (CPCL)", Bologna.
Since 2018 she is a member of the scientific committee of the research centre DAMSLab, Bologna.
Since 2017 she is a member of the scientific committee of the publishing series ‘Artype, aperture sul contemporaneo’, Bologna.
Since 2017 he is a member of the scientific committee of the journal ‘Histories of Postwar Architecture’, Bologna.
Awards and acknowledgements
2023, Habilitation as Professeure des Écoles nationales supérieures d'architecture et de paysage, Ministère de la Culture, France.
2019, Habilitation Maître de Conférences des Écoles nationales supérieures d'architecture et de paysage, Ministère de la Culture, France.
2017, Annual funding for research activities, Ministry of Education, University and Research, Italy.
2016, Award: ‘Premio en la Categoría de Divulgación / Libros de la Convocatoria de Investigación’, XIII Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism, Spain (essays: Kahn and the low-cost concrete dwellings: Vacuum Formed Method for Israel, 1949, in: Eduardo Torroja 1949. Strategies for the industrialisation of housing after the Second World War, Madrid, Fundación Eduardo Torroja, Fundación Juanelo Turriano, 2013, pp. 229 - 244).
2014, Habilitation as Maître de Conférences, CNU Section No. 18 (‘Architecture - theories and practices’), Ministry of Higher Education and Research, France.
2014, Habilitation to Maître de Conférences, Section CNU No. 22 (‘History and civilisation’), Ministry of Higher Education and Research, France.
2008, Special mention and dignity of publication for doctoral thesis.
2007, Scholarship for young researchers, Fondation Le Corbusier, Paris.
Other activities
PARTICIPATION IN RESEARCH GROUP ACTIVITIES
Since 2024 she has been Scientific Coordinator of the research group "Radical Exibited Thought. Exhibitions of Architecture", University of Bologna.
Since 2022 she is a full member of the research laboratory Observatoire de la condition suburbaine (OCS), École d'architecture de la ville & des territoires, Paris-Est.
Since 2017, he is a full member of the research group Spaces and actors of collecting and connoisseurship, University of Bologna.
Since 2014 he is a full member of the research unit Art of Building, Baukunst, IUAV University of Venice.
PARTICIPATION IN INTERNATIONAL COMMISSIONS, JURIES AND SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES
Since 2024, member of the National University Council for Art History (CUNSTA)
Since 2022, Member of the Commission Régionale du Patrimoine et de l'Architecture (CRPA) of the Île-de-France.
2022-2024, Member of the Society for Artistic Research (SAR)
In 2019 she was a member of the jury of the Lisbon Architecture Triennial
In 2017 she was a member of the jury of Competitions for Designers (CODE)
