Jacopo Galli
Job Title: Postdoc Fellow
Institutional affiliation: Università Iuav di Venezia / FEEM Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei
Jacopo Galli (Crema, 1985) obtained his PhD from Università Iuav di Venezia with a dissertation on the African works of Edwin Maxwell Fry and Jane Drew that was published in the book Tropical Toolbox.
He was among the curators of the exhibition Africa Big Change – Big Chance in La Triennale Milan and CIVA Bruxelles. He was the author of a book devoted to the Ethiopian works of Arturo Mezzedimi and and has been part of international exhibitions (Biennale di Venezia, Triennale di Milano) and workshops (Virginia University Venice Program, Rebuilding Syria from Within, WAVE 2017 Syria the Making of the Future).
He is among the founders of Urbicide Task Force, a multidisciplinary think tank on architectural and urban reconstruction strategies, that is a consultant for the World Bank program Building for Peace in MENA.
Publications
Galli, J. “Hypocondria as a Form Factor: The role of colonial anxieties as shapers of buildings and urban spaces in the British Empire in Planning Perspective.” Edited by J. Davis. Special Issue Epidemics, Planning and the City (Cardiff University), forthcoming.
Galli, G. “Confini Urbani, confini di guerra, confini di ricostruzione. I regimi proprietari come motore dei processi insediativi della ricostruzione.” Archivio di Studi Urbani e Regionali. Numero Speciale: Ricostruzione: lezioni storiche, sfide attuali, strategie future, 2021: 38-60.
Galli, J., ed. Syria the Making of the Future – from Urbicide to the Architecture of the City. Conegliano Veneto: Incipit Editore, 2017.
Galli, J. Tropical Toolbox. Fry and Drew and the search for an African modernity. Siracusa: Lettera 22, 2019.