Alessandro Pierattini PhD

Biography

Alessandro Pierattini is a scholar of Greek and Roman architecture whose work integrates archaeology with the history of architecture, art, and construction. His research examines the technological, material, functional, and environmental dimensions of the ancient built environment, with particular emphasis on the origins of monumental architecture. More broadly, he investigates the social impact of architecture in Greek and Roman communities, the diffusion of design and construction innovations across the Mediterranean, and the economic, organizational, and labor investments that large-scale building projects required.

He is the author of The Origins of Greek Temple Architecture (Cambridge University Press, 2022) and Manuale del Restauro Archeologico di Ercolano (Dedalo, 2009). His scholarship explores how ancient builders developed structural systems, construction techniques, and formal and aesthetic solutions that shaped monumental architecture, combining architectural analysis with the study of materials, building processes, and technological experimentation.

Pierattini received his Ph.D. in Architectural History from La Sapienza University of Rome and currently serves as Director of the University of Notre Dame Excavations at Isthmia, where he is preparing a monograph on the Archaic Temple of Poseidon.