Brigitte Sölch is Professor of the History of Architecture and Art History at Heidelberg University. She has been Professor of the History and Theory of Architecture/Design History at Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design (2018-2021) and spent the spring term 2019 in New York City as Weinberg Fellow at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies at Columbia University (project: “The Agora in Postwar Architectural Discourse”). Her award-winning PhD thesis (published 2007) focused on the beginnings of public museums in Rome in the early eighteenth century, and in 2018, she completed her habilitation at the Humboldt University of Berlin with a thesis on the idea and concept of the ‘forum’ (fifteenth to twenty-first century). Brigitte Sölch was assistant professor and assistant curator at various universities and museums before holding several positions at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence – Max-Planck-Institute (2008–2018), where she was also co-project leader of “Ethics and Architecture” and “Piazza e monumento.” Her recent publications include the book Kunsthistorikerinnen 1910–1980: Wege Methoden Kritiken, edited with K. Lee Chichester (2021).

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