Professor Antonello Alici is Associate Professor in Architectural History at the Polytechnic University of the Marche, Ancona, specialising in Contemporary Architecture and Heritage Studies. His research deals with the history of landscape, city and architecture as well as conservation theory and cultural heritage. He is heavily involved in international collaborations: with universities, architectural museums and archives in Europe and Asia. He is the President of do.co.mo.moItalia, board member of the International Confederation of Architectural Museums (ICAM), board member of the Italian Association of Architectural Historians (Aistarch), board member of the Vitruvian Study Center in Fano (Marche), and Research Fellow in Architecture at the British School at Rome.
Since 2016/2017, when he was a Visiting scholar at the Martin Centre for Architectural and Urban Studies in Cambridge, he has focused on the evolution of British urban and architectural culture since the 1930s and in the post-war period, marked by the role of the Mars group within CIAM and by the contribution of Sir Leslie Martin and Colin St John Wilson. Cambridge and its colleges provide a central focus in this research. At St John’s, Antonello Alici plans to work in the College archives and library to record the complex debate between ‘avant-garde’ and ‘conservationists’ for the extension of Cambridge colleges from the 1950s to the 1980s. The output will be a publication, following the two chapters he has already published on Peterhouse and St John’s.
