POLITTICO VISITING FELLOW 2023/2024. Alicia Imperiale’s scholarly work examines the interplay between technology and art, architecture, representation, and fabrication in postwar Italian art and architecture. She authored works such as: New Flatness: Surface Tension in Digital Architecture (Birkhauser, 2000); "Seminal Space: Getting under the Digital Skin", in RE:SKIN (MIT, 2006); "Organic Italy? The Troubling Case of Rinaldo Semino", in Perspecta 43 (2010); "Organic Architecture as an Open Work", in Zevi’s Architects: History and Counter-History from Postwar to the End of the 20th Century (Quodlibet, 2018); "A prehistory of parametric architecture" (Log 44, 2018). Her book manuscript Organic Architecture as an Open Work: The aesthetics of experimentation in art, technology & architecture in postwar Italy is based upon her dissertation at Princeton University. In 2016-17 she was a Cornell University Society for the Humanities Fellow, where she conducted research for a new book Machine Consequences: Origins of Output. Her work has been supported by a Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts Research Grant.
POLITTICO VISITING FELLOW 2021/2022
Luben Dimcheff is Assistant Professor at Cornell University AAP and the principal of Dimcheff Studio, a creative consulting practice based in New York City. As principal at Dimcheff Studio, he oversees design work built internationally, including in Rio de Janeiro and Mumbai, with current residential and cultural projects in Cayuga Heights, NY, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Karachi and Modica, Sicily. In addition to his practice, Dimcheff is dedicated to academic work and has taught extensively in the realm of Architectural design, analytical representation and drawing.
Dimcheff is the coauthor of Model Perspectives | Structure, Architecture and Culture (Routledge, 2017); he has lectured on initiation Design pedagogy, Design Empathy and Cultivated Intuition, most recently at the 2019 International ACSA/EAAE Teachers Conference, hosted by the University of Antwerp in Belgium. Dimcheff received his professional degree in Architecture from Cornell and graduated with honors from the Art Institute of Seattle, where he studied Fashion and Interior design. He was born and grew up in Bulgaria, where he studied at the Romain Rolland School.
Luben Dimcheff is currently a Spring 2022 Visiting Fellow at the Università di Pisa.
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POLITTICO VISITING FELLOW 2019/2020
Dr. Dainese is currently Assistant Professor of Architecture at Dalhousie University, Canada. She works on issues of decolonization and postcolonial theory, global history and modernism with a focus on the transoceanic exchange between African, European and American architecture. She has published widely in architectural books and magazines (JSAH, JA and Thresholds) and her research has received grants and awards from Columbia University, Bruno Zevi Foundation, CCA, GAHTC, and the Graham Foundation. In January 2020, she will join the School of Architecture at Georgia Tech as the new Assistant Professor of History and Theory of Architecture.
We're really proud to announce that Elisa Dainese will be Visiting Fellow 2020 of Pisa University. The program of Visiting Fellows enhances international relationships between the University and scholars, professionals and researchers, allowing a fruitful exchange of knowledge and know-how.
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