This lecture will address the development of architectural and urban representation from Jacopo de’ Barbari and Albrecht Dürer to Wenceslaus Hollar. It will trace the dissemination concerning the ideas of geometry, perspective and mapping from Rome and Venice, via Nuremberg and Antwerp to Canterbury and London. It will do that by showing how the knowledge concerning geometry, perspective and representation of space was always not only a question of art and prestige but deeply psychological and socio-political. Fontana-Giusti will discuss the implications in contemporary context.
The lecture is based on Fontana-Giusti’s long-term research and publications on Leon Battista Alberti, Albrecht Dürer and Wenceslaus Hollar and is the subject of her forthcoming book.
This event will be in English.
W.T.C. Walker Lecture
Prof. Gordana Fontana-Giusti, (PhD,MArch, FRSA) is an architect, architectural theorist and Professor of Architecture and Urban Regeneration at University of Kent, where she is the Director of CREAte – Centre for Research in European Architecture.
Fontana-Giusti taught and researched at the Architectural Association, London, Central Saint Martin’s College of Art and has lectured across UK, Europe, Middle East and China. The author of Foucault for Architects, co-author of Scale: Imagination, Perception and Practice and of Complete Works of Zaha Hadid (with Patrik Schumacher), she has published numerous articles in architectural history and theory.
Fontana-Giusti’s expertise includes genealogy of architectural knowledge through architectural treatises, representation of architecture in visual arts, the role of perspective, perception of architecture and urban landscape, urban mapping, and digitalisation of urban landscape. Fontana-Giusti has been involved in urban design projects, design of urban installations for public spaces and in production of exhibitions and video art.
Most recently Fontana-Giusti served on the UK REF 2021 Panel for Architecture and Built Environment evaluating quality of research in UK universities.
