Guido Zucconi
Job Title: Full professor at the University IUAV of Venice until 2020
Institutional affiliation: University of Padova
Born in Modena (1950). Graduate in Architecture, at the Politecnico of Milan (1975), later at the Princeton University (USA), 1977. Full professor in History of Architecture and Urban History at the University IUAV of Venice from November 2000 to September 2020. Visiting professor at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris, University of Edinburgh, Fudan University in Shanghai, and CUJAE of La Habana. President of AISU (Italian Association of Urban History) from 2010 to 2013, president of the Ateneo Veneto in Venice, from 2014 to 2017, later member of its board. Now retired doing classes on urban history at the University of Padova. Major fields of interest: architectural and urban history mainly focused on Italian case studies of the 19th and 20th centuries, with special focus on the definition of new professional roles. Since 1980s, he has extensively published: on the birth of Italian town planning in La cIttà contesa(1987); on the international town planning arena in Camillo SItte e i suoi interpreti (1992); on the role of significant Italian personalities like Camillo Boito(1997) and Gustavo Giovannoni (1999).
Publications
Zucconi, G. “Gustavo Giovannoni: A Theory and A Practice of Urban Conservation.” Change Over Time. An International Journal of Conservation and the Built Environment (USA), no. IV(1) (2014): 76-91.
Zucconi, G. “Plans et projets pour une ville en mutation” Venise XX.e siècle, edited by M. Fincardi and X. Tabet, “Laboratoire italien”, 15 (2014): 93-106.
Zucconi, G. “’La festa è finita !’. The Question of “Centri storici” in 1970s Italy.” In Cities Contested. Urban Politics, Heritage and Social Movements in Italy and West Germany in the 1970s, edited by M. Baumeister et al., 193-210. Frankfurt-New York: Campus Verlag, 2017.
Zucconi, G. “The Architect of Greater Venice.” In Eugenio Miozzi. Modern Venice between Innovation and Tradition, edited by C. Kusch, 27-43. Berlin: DOM Publisher, 2021.
Porfyriou, H., and G.V. Zucconi (Eds. Special Issue). “The art of preserving and building cities in Italy (1860–1930): legacies and actors.” Planning Perspectives 37, no. 3 (2022): 433-444. Published online: 29 Mar 2022. https://doi.org/10.1080/02665433.2022.2053881
Zucconi, G. “Planning Venice after the Italian Unification: The Development of a Space-based Identity”, Planning Perspectives 37, no. 3 (2022): 583-614. Published online: 23 Mar 2022. https://doi.org/10.1080/02665433.2022.2051063