Roberta Martinis

Roberta Martinis, historian of architecture, PhD IUAV Venice, is a teacher-researcher in History of Architecture at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI).

For a long time she worked on the issues concerning Renaissance in Veneto and Lombardy, publishing the articles Ca’ Loredan-Vendramin-Calergi a Venezia: Mauro Codussi e il palazzo di Andrea Loredan, “Annali di Architettura Andrea Palladio”, 10-11, 1998-1999; Su un fregio all’antica: un’ipotesi per Antonio Lombardo in palazzo Loredan Vendramin Calergi a Venezia, “Arte Veneta”, 56, 2002; the books L’architettura contesa. Federico da Montefeltro, Lorenzo de Medici, gli Sforza e palazzo Salvatico a Milano, Milano 2008; and “Anticamente moderni”: palazzi rinascimentali di Lombardia in età sforzesca, Macerata 2021.

She studied also the role of the sketchbooks in Renaissance architecture as vehicle of the knowledge about the Antique in the monograph with O. Lanzarini Questo libro fu d’Andrea Palladio”: il codice Destailleur B dell’Ermitage, Roma 2014. In the meantime she is also involved in studies about history of contemporary architecture, such as the recent monographs Carlo Scarpa, casa Zentner a Zurigo: una villa italiana in Svizzera, Milano 2020; Carlo Scarpa. Casa Balboni in Venice, Milano 2021. She’s delivering the book: Carlo Scarpa. Olivetti Showroom in
Venice, Electa 2022.

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