#  Cesare Birignani 

 

 



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Cesare Birignani received a Ph.D. in Architectural History and Theory from Columbia University in 2012, with a dissertation on the planning of early modern Paris. His main research bears on the practices developed by the Paris police to control, discipline, and manage the city, as well as on a corpus of texts produced from the end of the seventeenth century until the Revolution under the rubric of “police science.” The theorists of the ville policée, he argues, turned the city into a new, complex object of knowledge: the discourse of police was the first critical effort to understand and come to terms with the modern urban condition. His current projects also include a critical edition of L’homme tel qu’il devrait être, the last, unpublished treatise by the French architect and theorist Pierre Patte, and the research project Architecture and Magnificence, which explores a range of festivals and collective events—from Renaissance royal entries to Olympic opening ceremonies—as moments that produce both ephemeral spaces and political subjects.

 

 

 





 

 

- ## Discipline
    
     [Art & Architecture](/disciplines/history-art-architecture)
- ## Fellowship
    
     [Postdoctoral](/fellowship/postdoctoral)
- ## Fellowship Year
    
     [2012 - 2013](/fellowship-year/2012-2013)
- ## Role
    
     [Fellows](/role/fellow)