Giovanna Guidicini holds a Laurea Magistrale (Master’s Degree) in Architecture from the Università degli Studi di Ferrara and a Ph.D. in History of Architecture from the University of Edinburgh. She is registered with Architecs Registration Board in UK since 2018, and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy since 2013.
Giovanna's research focuses on the distinct contribution of Scottish culture to the artistic and architectural scene of early modern Europe, particularly regarding the role of the urban environment as performative space during triumphal entries. Giovanna is currently working on a digital acoustic recreation of Charles I's entry (Edinburgh, 1633). Her research investigates the representation of sacred, symbolic, ritual, and geographical space through different media (it being real, imagined, painted, literary, or digital) with particular reference to the Trinity altarpiece by Hugo van der Goes (1478), and to Flemish merchant Anselm Adornes’ involvement in the commission and in Scottish culture.
space and spatial rituals, triumphal entries, courtly and civic ceremonies, early modern period, Renaissance, Scottish art and architecture, spatial representations, digital media, painted and drawn spaces, Edinburgh, Italian palaces and villas, Bologna, architecture of power
2024 - Small Research Grant, granted by the Royal Society of Edinburgh
2016 - Geoffrey Barrow Research Fund, granted by the Society for Scottish Medieval and Renaissance Studies
2013 - Kress Travel Grant, granted by the Renaissance Society of America
2012 - Scott Opler Emerging Scholar Fellowship, granted by the Society of Architectural Historians
2011 - Paul Mellon Research Support Grant, granted by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
Early modern art and architecture, Scottish architecture, the Renaissance, heritage and conservation
Giovanna has taught at the Università di Ferrara, at the University of Edinburgh, and at Plymouth University; she had taught both architecture in the studios and lecture-based courses in Architectural History. She joined The Glasgow School of Art in 2014, where she teaches foundation core courses in the history of architecture, and specialised courses on the architecture and cities of early modern Europe, and on the history and theory of conservation.
