Faculty of Science, Engineering and Built Environment

School of Architecture and Built Environment

Dr Flavia Marcello
  Phone   +61 3 524 79102
Email   flavia.marcello@deakin.edu.au
Position   Lecturer in Architecture
Campus   Waterfront
Research grouping   Architectural Design
History and Theory

Dr. Flavia Marcello is Director of the Bachelor of Design (Architecture). She teaches in architectural
design, history and theory and comes to Deakin along a varied path that includes living and working in
Rome, working in curriculum development and professional education for architects. An expert on Rome,
her areas of interest include: spatial practices within architecture both as ephemera and as an integral
element of urban space and relationships between ideology, form and sustainability.

Research interests

  1. Architecture and urban planning of the Italian Fascist Period
  2. Relationships between art, architecure and design
  3. 'Green' ideology in contemporary Australian architecture


Career

Professional Development Manager at Australian Institute of Architects
Design Studio Leader and Senior Tutor at University of Melbourne
Curriculum Development Consultant at Box Hill Institute of TAFE
Adjunct Professor at Temple University Rome Campus
Tutor and Research Assistant at University of New South Wales

Key publications

Marcello, F. (2011) Mussolini and the idealisation of Empire: the Augustan Exhibition of Romanità Modern Italy 16:3, 223-247 Routledge, England

Marcello, F. (2008) Gio Ponti and the Casa all’italiana: Fascist notions of Domestic Space Housekeeping. The Artistic Legacy of Le Corbusier’s machine à habiter ed. A. Novakov, Mellen Press

Marcello, F. (2008) The Norme of 1932 and the Fascist Concept of Monument. Publio Morbicucci’s The History of Rome Through Its Built Works The Venice Charter Revisited: Modernism & Conservation in the Post-War World ed. M. Hardy, Cambridge Scholars’ Press

Marcello, F. (2008) A Hunter of Images: Space, Frame and Materiality in the Photography of Giuseppe Pagano History in Practice, 25th International Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians of Australia and New Zealand

Marcello, F. (2007) The Politics of Place: Siting and Re-citing Mussolini’s New Party Headquarters, the Palazzo Littorio Architectural Theory Review 12:2,

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PhD students

Student nameThesis title
Gavin KeeneyVisual Agency and the work of Chris Marker  

 

Teaching areas

Design
History
Theory


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8th February 2013