Elisa Dainese

Education

• BA(Arch), IUAV University
  
• MArch, IUAV University
  
• PhD, IUAV University
  

Current Teaching (2020–21)

•   (on leave)

Research Interests

Prof. Dainese's primary interests are the history, theory and criticism of modern architecture; architectural and landscape design; endemic paradigm and African design.

Selected Publications

• Dainese, Elisa. "The Relocation of the Indigenous Community of South Indian Lake (1966-68): For an Alternative and Shared Inhabitation of Modern Architectural History." Thresholds 48, Special Issue on Kin (2020): 90–105.
  
• Dainese, Elisa. "From the Charter of Athens to the ‘Habitat’: CIAM 9 and the African Grids." Journal of Architecture 24, no. 3 (2019): 301–24.
  
• Dainese, Elisa. "African Design and CIAM Expansion After the Charter of Athens." In Routledge Handbook of Urban Planning in Africa, ed. Carlos Nunes Silva, 177–92. London/New York: Routledge, 2019.
  
• Dainese, Elisa. The Construction of the Charter of ‘Habitat’: From the Functional City to the African Village / La Costruzione della Carta dell’Habitat: Dalla Città Funzionale al Villaggio Africano. Rome: Bruno Zevi Foundation, 2018.
• Dainese, Elisa. "Histories of Exchange: Indigenous South Africa in the South African Architectural Record and the Architectural Review." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 74, no. 4 (2015): 443–63.

Selected Honours and Awards

• Graham Foundation Award to Individuals, Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Chicago (2019)
• Bruno Zevi Prize for a Historical/Critical Essay in Architecture, Bruno Zevi Foundation, Rome (2018)
• Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America Fellowship, Columbia University, New York (2016)
  
• Opler Grant for Emerging Scholars, Society of Architectural Historians (2015)
  
• Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship, European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (2013)
  

Scholarly or Professional Memberships

• Society of Architectural Historians (SAH)
  
• Global Architectural History Teaching Collaborative (GAHTC)
  
• Network-Association of European Researchers on Urbanization in the South (N-AERUS)
  
• Collaborative Research Group African History (CRG African History)
  
• Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies (AEGIS)
  
• Smart History (Khan Academy)