Federico Marcomini

Federico Marcomini, Ph.D., is a postdoctoral researcher at the Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte. His work focuses on the transcultural and transdisciplinary history of architecture, particularly the migration of classical architectural languages into new geographies and chronologies. He collaborates with the research unit Decolonizing Italian Visual and Material Culture: From Nation Building to Now and has affiliations with La Sapienza University of Rome and the Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio in Vicenza.

• Education: Ph.D. in History of Architecture and the City (University of Florence, 2024), M.A. in History of Art (University of Florence, 2020)

Marcomini’s research explores how classical and Palladian architectural features are recontextualized in postcolonial settings. His doctoral dissertation examined the adoption of classical architecture in Astana, Kazakhstan, while his current project analyzes Americo-Liberian Palladianism in Liberia, West Africa, interrogating its colonial and decolonial implications through travel accounts, ethnographic reports, and critical theory.

His work bridges architectural history with postcolonial theory, emphasizing cultural hybridity and the politics of representation. Marcomini has presented his findings at international interdisciplinary conferences and contributes to scholarly publications.

At the Bibliotheca Hertziana, Marcomini collaborates with the Weddigen Department, focusing on the global trajectories of architectural forms and their historiographic interpretations.