Francesca Sisci is an architect with a PhD in Architectural Design. Her approach to studying architectural representation is distinctive in its integration of multiple disciplines, including art history, architectural theory, and photography. She focuses on exploring aspects of visual perception and how these can be translated into graphic analysis.
Her main research project revolves around the theoretical work of Robert Venturi. Under the supervision of Prof. David Brownlee at the University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), she conducted a groundbreaking study, uncovering a substantial amount of previously unpublished graphic material created by Venturi for his influential book, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (1966). The findings of her research have been presented in both national and international journals and symposia. In 2022, she was awarded the College Italia residency in New York City.
Critical review of studies on the representation of architecture and use of the image in science and art
