Paolo Girardelli

Ph.D., 1995, University of Naples

(90) (212) 359 6960

TB 410/A

Research Interests: 

Architecture and urbanism of the Eastern Mediterranean (XVIII-XX Centuries); Visual representations of identity; European presence in the Late Ottoman empire

Research Projects: 

2021 - Present: Boğaziçi Üniversitesi BAP (Project Number:18302): Talents in Transition: Italian-Ottoman Networks, Migration and Mobility in the Architecture and Construction Sector

Teaching: 

HIST 209: RESEARCH METHODS IN HISTORY I 

HIST 593: SP.TP.ARCHIT.&SOC.IN GALATA,PERA,BEYOĞLU

HIST 354: RENAISSANCE,BAROQUE ART & ARCHITECTURE 

 

Selected Publications: 

“Between Rome and Istanbul: Architecture and Material Culture of a Franciscan Mission in the Ottoman Capital.”Journal of Mediterranean Studies, XVIII (Manchester University Press), 2010, 162-188

“Sheltering Diversity. Levantine Architecture in Late Ottoman Istanbul” in Multicultural Urban Fabric and Types in the South and Eastern Mediterranean, edited by Maurice Cerasi, Attilio Petruccioli, Adriana Sarro and Stefan Weber, Beiruter Texte und Studien, Herausgegeben vom Orient-Institut, Beirut (2007): 113-40

“Una citta; nella citta;. La Societa; Operaia e le architetture della comunita; italiana di Istanbul,” in A. De Gasperis and R. Ferrazza, eds., Gli Italiani di Istanbul. Figure, comunita; e istituzioni dale Riforme alla Repubblica, 1839-1923, proceedings of the international conference, Istanbul, Italian Cultural Institute, Oct. 18-20, 2006 (Fondazione Agnelli, Centro Altreitalie, 2007): 207-18

“Architecture, Identity and Liminality: on the Use and Meaning of Catholic Spaces in Late Ottoman Istanbul”, Muqarnas. An Annual on the Visual Culture of the Islamic World, 22, (2005): 233-64.