'Francesco di Giorgio Martini's Drawings: Notes on a Practice and a Project' with Pari Riahi

Five College Renaissance Seminar with Pari Riahi (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

Pari Riahi is Associate Dean of Academic Operations and Infrastructure at the College of Humanities and Fine Arts. She is a Registered Architect and Associate Professor of architecture at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She has previously taught at the Rhode Island School of Design, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the State University of New York at Buffalo. Riahi’s first book, Ars et Ingenium: The Embodiment of Imagination in Francesco di Giorgio Martini’s Drawings (Routledge, 2015), concerns the systematic inclusion of drawing as a component of architectural design and investigates the treatises of Francesco di Giorgio Martini, the Renaissance architect and artist. Riahi is currently working on two book projects: Architectural Drawing in the Post Digital Era: Disjointed Continuity (under contract with Routledge) considers the digital turn in drawing and representation in architecture. Her second project, provisionally titled Architectures of Collectivity: A Study of Urban Form and Public Grounds, is a comparative analysis of public housing projects in the suburbs of Paris, which fuses historical research with visual analytical modes through photographs, drawings, and collages. She is the instigator, cochair and coeditor of a series of symposia and their accompanying edited volumes on contemporary architecture. Exactitude: On Precision and Play in Contemporary Architecture is the first in the series (University of Massachusetts Press, 2022). Multiplicity: On Constraint and Agency in Contemporary Architecture is forthcoming (University of Massachusetts Press, projected date of publication 2024). Her work has been published in Journal of Architecture, Journal of Architectural Education, Journal of Interior Architecture and Adaptive Reuse, and Architecture Boston. She serves as a member of the advisory committee to the Journal of Society of Architectural Historians and an international editor of the Journal of Architecture.