Daniela Mondini

About

Daniela Mondini is a full professor at the Accademia di architettura Mendrisio (Università della Svizzera italiana). She studied History of Art and History at the University of Zurich and “La Sapienza” in Rome. In 2002, she obtained a PhD from the University of Zurich and received her Habilitation in 2010. From 2002–2005 and again 2009–2010 she has been involved in the research project “Die Kirchen der Stadt Rom im Mittelalter” funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. From 2007 until 2008 Mondini was employed at the The Swiss National Library’s Prints and Drawings Department in Bern.

Mondini has lectured at Munich Technical University, ETH Zurich, University of Bern and University of Zurich. In 2010 she obtained an SNSF-Assistant professorship at the Università della Svizzera italiana, Accademia di architettura in Mendrisio where she has been tenured in 2012. Mondini served as pro-rector of the Università della Svizzera italiana from 2017–2020.

Research focus

• Light and darkness in architecture
• History of art history (J. Stuart and N. Revett; J.B.L.G. Séroux d'Agincourt, J.R. Rahn)
• Reception of the Middle Ages in art, architecture, photography and museums
• Relics and reliquaries