COCCOLI Carlotta

Carlotta Coccoli, architect, holds a Ph.D. in Preservation of Architectural Heritage and is a specialist in the restoration of monuments. She is Associate Professor of Architectural Preservation at the University of Brescia. Her main field of research is the protection of cultural (mainly architectural) heritage in the event of armed conflict. She has written and lectured on this topic both in Italy and abroad (Tokyo, Gakushuin Women’s College; Munich, Zentralinstituts für Kunstgeschichte; Swansea, Swansea University; Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado; London, Victoria&Albert Museum). Among her publications are: “I «fortilizi inespugnabili della civiltà italiana»: la protezione antiaerea del patrimonio monumentale italiano durante la seconda guerra mondiale” (2010); “«First Aid and Repairs»: il ruolo degli Alleati nella salvaguardia dei monumenti italiani” (2011); “Die Denkmäler Italiens und der Krieg: Präventiver Schutz, Erste Hilfe und Instandsetzungen. Die Rolle der Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Subcommission in Italien während des Zweiten Weltkriegs” (2012). She is co-editor of “Guerra, monumenti, ricostruzione. Architetture e centri storici italiani nel secondo conflitto mondiale” (2011), “Monumenti, paesaggio e città nella ricostruzione postbellica del Giappone” (2014), “Britain at war. Damages, debates, reconstruction during and after the Second World War” (FrancoAngeli, Milano 2018) and the author of the book “Monumenti violati. Danni bellici e riparazioni in Italia nel 1943-1945: il ruolo degli Alleati” (2017).
In 2014, on behalf of the American Academy in Rome and the Deutsches Historisches Institut in Rome she organized (with Lutz Klinkhammer) the international conference “Art and War. Destruction and Protection of Italian Heritage, 1943-1945”.
She is author of more then 70 scholarly publications and conference presentations.