Ines Tolic
Job Title: Associate Professor
Institutional affiliation: University of Bologna
Ines Tolic, architect, PhD, is associate professor in History of Architecture and member of the PhD Research Board in Science and Culture of Well-being and Lifestyles at the University of Bologna - Rimini Campus. She graduated in Architecture from the Iuav University of Venice (2004) and received a PhD in the History of Architecture and Urban History at the School of Advanced Studies in Venice. In 2009, her dissertation dealing with the UN-coordinated reconstruction of Skopje (1963-1966) was awarded the Gubbio Prize by the Associazione Nazionale Centri Storico Artistici.
In the course of her research, she has dealt with how architecture is represented, analysing, among other things the role of audiovisual documents in the construction of new narratives of the city; the role of the United Nations as a global planning agency and especially the contribution of Ernest Weissmann; post-war architecture and urban design in Japan with a focus on Kenzo Tange; and post-apartheid architectural production in South Africa.
She has collaborated with the international research projects Unfinished modernisations [EU Culture programme 2007-2013], Visualising Venice and Delos Network.
She is a member of the editorial board of Histories of Postwar Architecture, Journal of Creative Practices in Cities and Landscapes, ZoneModa Journal and of the publishing series Culture, Fashion and Society (Milan: Pearson Mondadori).
She has been an auditor for the Italian Association of Urban History (AISU) since 2017, a founding member of the Culture Fashion Communication International Research Group (CFC), and a representative for the Emilia Romagna Region within the Italian Association of Architectural Historians (AISTARCH).
Publications
Tolic, I. “La rivista Ekistics e il network globale di Constantinos Doxiadis.” In La città globale. La condizione urbana come fenomeno pervasivo / The Global City. The urban condition as a pervasive phenomenon, edited by M. Pretelli, R. Tamborrino and I. Tolic. Turin: Aisu International, 2020.
Tolic, I. “Insediamenti di civiltà. L’Iraq Housing Program di Costantinos A. Doxiadis fra tradizioni locali e modernità globale (1955-1959).” Città e Storia, no. 1-2 (2019): 169-186.
Tolic, I. “Skopje 1963, Progettualità internazionale dopo il sisma.” In Ricostruzioni. Architettura, città, paesaggio nell’epoca delle distruzioni, edited by N. Bassoli and A. Ferlenga, 159-164. Cinisello Balsamo: Silvana, 2018.
Tolic, I. “The Protagonists of Skopje’s Reconstruction.” In The Future as a Project. Doxiadis in Skopje, edited by K. Tsiambaos, C.–G. Kritikos K. Amygdalou, 38-49. Athens: Hellenic Institute of Architecture, 2018.
Tolic, I. “Ernest Weissmann’s World City.” Southeastern Europe, no. 41 (2017): 171-199.
Tolić, I. “News from the Modern Front: Constantinos A. Doxiadis’s Ekistics, the United Nations, and the post-war discourse on housing, building and planning.” Planning Perspectives, https://doi.org/10.1080/02665433.2022.2110930
Filippo De Dominicis & Ines Tolic (2022) Experts, export, and the entanglements of global planning, Planning Perspectives, 37:5, 871-887, DOI: 10.1080/02665433.2022.2116595
Ines Tolić (2022) News from the Modern Front: Constantinos A. Doxiadis’s Ekistics, the United Nations, and the post-war discourse on housing, building and planning, Planning Perspectives, 37:5, 973-999, DOI: 10.1080/02665433.2022.2110930