Sara Galletti

<p>I hold an M.Arch from the Università IUAV di Venezia (1999) and a Ph.D. in the History of Architecture and Urbanism from the Sorbonne Université-Paris IV and IUAV (joint program, 2004). I have held postdoctoral and research positions at Harvard University, 2002–04; Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, 2005–06 and 2007-09; and the Institut national d'histoire de l'art (INHA), 2017. In 2022–23, I was a visiting professor at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL).</p><p>My research focuses on the history and theory of architecture and urbanism in early modern Europe and the premodern Mediterranean. I have published on the production and reception of architectural knowledge and models, early modern architectural treatises, women’s patronage, the history of stereotomy, and urban history.</p><p>I am the author of <a href="../../publication/1012410"><i>Le Palais du Luxembourg de Marie de Médicis, 1611-1631</i></a> (Paris: Picard, 2012),&nbsp;"<a href="http://doi.org/10.5334/ah.bh">Philibert de l’Orme’s Divine Proportions and the Composition of the <i>Premier tome de l’architecture</i></a>" (<i>Architectural Histories</i> 2, no. 1, 2014), "<a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/678777">Rubens’s Life of Maria de’ Medici: Dissimulation and the Politics of Art in Early Seventeenth-Century France</a>" (<i>Renaissance Quarterly</i> 67, no. 3, 2014); and "<a href="https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2012.71.2.186">Female Agency and Early Modern Urbanism: the Paris of Maria de’ Medici</a>" (<i>Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians</i> 71, no. 2, 2012).</p><p>I am currently working on a book project funded by a 2021–22 NEH grant tentatively titled&nbsp;<i>History of Stone Vaulting in the Pre-Modern Mediterranean: Practices, Theories, and Patterns of Knowledge Transfer</i>. My articles related to this project include "<a href="https://doi.org/10.13128/opus-12362">Épures d’architecture: geometric constructions for vault building in Philibert de L’Orme’s <i>Premier tome de l’architecture</i> (1567)</a>" (<i>Opus Incertum</i> 6, 2020), "From Stone to Paper: Philibert de L’Orme, the <i>Premier tome de l’architecture</i> (1567), the Birth of Stereotomic Theory" (<i>Aedificare: International Journal of Construction History</i> 2, no. 2, 2018), and "<a href="https://doi.org/10.21071/mijtk.v0i2.6716">Stereotomy and the Mediterranean: Notes Toward an Architectural History</a>" (<i>Mediterranea. International Journal on the Transfer of Knowledge</i>, no. 2, 2017).<br/><br/>I am also researching two other book-length projects: <i>Practice into Theory: Philibert de L’Orme, the <i>Premier tome de l’architecture</i> (1567), and The Profession of Architecture in Early Modern France</i> and <i>Paris of Waters</i>. <i>Practice into Theory</i> examines Philibert de L’Orme’s treatise in the context of architectural production and discourse in late medieval and early modern France, with a particular focus on the professionalization of architects. Materials based on this project have been published in "<a href="https://doi.org/10.1017/arh.2021.11">Philibert de L’Orme’s Dome in the Chapel of the Château d’Anet: The Role of Stereotomy</a>" (<i>Architectural History</i> 64, 2021). <i>Paris of Waters</i> focuses on the impact of water on the demographic, social, architectural, and urban development of the city of Paris in the early modern period. It looks at water in a variety of forms—as a resource, a commodity, a means of transportation, a funnel for the city’s waste, and a cause of disaster and death—and makes water visible as a powerful agent of urban transformation.</p><p>I welcome applications to the Ph.D. program from any student with an interest in early modern architecture in Europe and/or the Mediterranean.</p>