Donatella Calabi

Donatella Calabi is Vice-Chancellor and Professor of Urbanism and Architectural History at the Architectural University of Venice (IUAV). She has also been "Directeur d’études" at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, Visiting Professor at the Catholic University of Louvain, at the British Academy in London, and is an Honorary Fellow at the University of Leicester. She has taught at the University of Paris la Villette, at the l’Institut Français d’Urbanisme, the Escuela Tecnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid, the University of Sâo Paulo and Sâo Carlos in Brazil, and the Ecole des Etudes en Sciences Culturelles of Tokyo.

She has been Co-Director of the Summer School in Art and Architectural History at Venice International University, a program supported by the Delmas Foundation of New York, as well as the doctorate in the History of the Arts at the School of Advanced Studies of Venice. She is Honorary President of the European Association of Urban Historians (EAUH) and the Italian Association of Urban History (AISU).

She is Director of the series “Storia della città” published by Laterza (Roma-Bari), member of the Editorial Board of the journal “Planning perspectives,” and C-Director of the journal “Città e storia”.

Donatella Calabi writes on the history of Early Modern and Contemporary cities. Among her recent publications are the following: with J. Bottin, Les Etrangers dans la ville (Paris, MSH 1999); Storia dell’urbanistica europea (Torino, Paravia 2000, Milano Bruno Mondadori 2004); La città del primo Rinascimento (Roma-Bari, Laterza 2001); Storia della città. Età moderna (Venezia, Marsilio 2001); Storia della città. Età contemporanea, (Venezia, Marsilio 2005); Le città cosmopolite, cura del volume, introduzione e saggio: n°1 (2007) di “Città e storia”; con S. T. Christensen ha curato Cities and cultural Exchanges, 1400-1700 (Cambridge University Press 2007), I Musei della città, cura del volume, introduzione e saggio: n°1-2 (2008) di “ Città e storia”. Her writings have been translated into English, French, German, Spanish, Dutch, Hebrew, and Japanese.

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