PAOLO SCRIVANO

725 Commonwealth Ave, Rm 202C
Boston, Massachusetts 02215
Telephone: (617) 358-6021
Fax: (617) 353-3243
E-mail: scrivano@bu.edu

curriculum vitae

Assistant Professor; Modern Architecture; D.Arch., Ph.D., Politecnico di Torino

Paolo Scrivano joined Boston University after having taught at the Politecnico di Milano (1997-2001) and at the University of Toronto (2002-2007). He graduated in Architectural History from the Politecnico di Torino in 1992 and, from the same university, received a PhD in History of Architecture and Town-Planning in 1997. He has been Visiting Scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1995), Post-doctoral Fellow at the Politecnico di Torino (1997-99), Visiting Scholar at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (2002), Ailsa Mellon Bruce Visiting Senior Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts of the National Gallery of Art (2003), and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Research Grant recipient (2005-08).

Professor Scrivano’s research focuses on 19th and 20th century architecture with a specific interest in historiography and the postwar years. He has organized symposia and exhibitions, edited books and contributed essays and chapters to collective works: his publications and activities include Tra Guerra e Pace. Società, Cultura e Architettura nel Secondo Dopoguerra (Milan 1998, as co-editor), Storia di un’idea di architettura moderna. Henry-Russell Hitchcock and the International Style (Milan 2001), Olivetti Builds: Modern Architecture in Ivrea (Milan 2001, with Patrizia Bonifazio), the exhibition “Building the Human City: Adriano Olivetti and Town-Planning” (Milan Triennale, 2002) and the organization of the international conference “The Americanization of Postwar Architecture” (University of Toronto, 2005).