Bio

Lorenzo is an architect and architectural historian; he received a M.Arch. from the University of Florence, Italy, and a Ph.D. in architectural history from Columbia University. The focus of his research is the origin of the Renaissance palace and domestic lifestyle in Italy during the 14-15th centuries. He collaborates with the CATASTO project at the University of Chicago and FLORENCE AS IT WAS at Washington & Lee University.
Lorenzo received a 3-year EU grant to study the circulation of architectural knowledge between medieval Iran and Italy, specifically the materiality and the problems of preservation of brick dome structures, for which he has completed a number of on-ste architectural surveys and archival research in Iran.
He collaborated with the Medici Archive Project for their Uffizi exhibition on the Florentine ghetto, for which he curated the digital reconstruction of the original appearance based on archival documents.
Lorenzo has been the recipient of fellowships and grants from the European Union, NEH, the Kress and Mellon Foundations, the Society of the Architectural Historians, and the Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio. He taught courses on Western architecture and urban planning at Columbia, NYU, Pratt Institute, University of Utah, Union College, and University of Bologna.